Where: Nile Valley, Egypt (30.1° N, 31.3° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 10.6° N, 34.4° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Scapanorhynchus texanus zone, Duwi Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: phosphorite
Primary reference: A. S. Kassab and A. S. Mohamed. 1996. Upper Cretaceous macrofossils from the Duwi Formation of the Nile Valley, southern Egypt. Neues Jahrbuch fuer Geologie und Palaeontologie-Abhandlungen 200(3):259-284 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 3592: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 05.08.1999
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Foraminifera | |
Guembelitria cretacea Cushman 1933 | |
Rugoglobigerina macrocephala Broennimann 1952 | |
"Heterohelix glabrans" = Guembelina glabrans
"Heterohelix glabrans" = Guembelina glabrans Cushman 1938 | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Scapanorhynchus texanus Roemer 1852 goblin shark |