Where: Egypt (25.5° N, 29.2° E: paleocoordinates 12.1° N, 23.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Mawhoob Shale Member (Dakhla Formation), Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, silty shale

Primary reference: A. A. Tantawy, G. Keller, T. Adatte, W. Stinnesbeck, A. Kassab and P. Schulte. 2001. Maastrichtian to Paleocene depositional environment of the Dakhla Formation, Western Desert, Egypt: sedimentology, mineralogy, and integrated micro- and macrofossil biostratigraphies. Cretaceous Research 22:795-827 [L. Ivany/P. Wall/P. Wall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 46599: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 20.01.2005

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