Western Desert, Egypt (Cretaceous of Egypt)

Where: Western Desert, Egypt (25.0° N, 30.8° E: paleocoordinates 11.5° N, 25.3° E)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Exogyra wegeneri zone, Dakhla Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shale and phosphorite

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 3154: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Zack Krug on 27.07.1999, edited by Karen Layou

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Bivalvia
 Carditida - Carditidae
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
cf. Pholadomya lucerna clam
originally entered as "Pholadomya cf. lucerna"
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
Veniella dakhlensis clam
originally entered as "Veneilla dakhlensis"
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Exogyra overwegi von Buch 1852 oyster
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
 Arcida - Arcidae
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana producta pointed nut clam
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
"Volutocorbis desertorum" = Athleta (Volutocorbis)
"Volutocorbis desertorum" = Athleta (Volutocorbis) volute