Where: Western Desert, Egypt (25.5° N, 30.5° E: paleocoordinates 12.0° N, 25.1° E)
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Exogyra overwegi other zone, Dakhla Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; shale and dolomite
Primary reference: A. Kassab, A. Kenawy, and M. Zakhira. 1995. Biostratigraphy of some Upper Cretaceous/Lower Tertiary outcrops from the Egyptian Western Desert. Neues Jahrbuch fuer Geologie und Palaeontologie-Abhandlungen 196(3):309-326 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 3148: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Zack Krug on 27.07.1999, edited by Karen Layou
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Amaea hassani wentletrap | |
Bivalvia | |
"Inoceramus regularis" = Endocostea regularis
"Inoceramus regularis" = Endocostea regularis d'Orbigny 1845 clam | |
Chlamys acutiplicatus scallop | |
Exogyra overwegi von Buch 1852 oyster | |
Meretrix rohlfsi venus clam |