Great Sand Sea, Western Desert (Cretaceous of Egypt)

Where: Al Wadi al Jadid, Egypt (25.4° N, 27.0° E: paleocoordinates 12.0° N, 22.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ammonite Hill Member (Dakhla Formation), Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: delta plain; siliciclastic sediments

• "distal alluvial to deltaic shallow marine sediments"
• "siltstones, sandstones, and limestones"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by K. W. Barthel in 1980

Primary reference: O. W. M. Rauhut and C. Werner. 1997. First record of a Maastrichtian sauropod dinosaur from Egypt. Palaeontologia Africana 34:63-67 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 97712: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 25.08.2010, edited by Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Somphospondyli indet. Wilson and Sereno 1998 sauropod
Vb-646