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

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Nuculana producta/Inoceramus regularis zone, Dakhla Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shale

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 3155: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Zack Krug on 27.07.1999, edited by Karen Layou

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