Wadi Dakhl, Zone T2, Abu Qada Fm: Early Turonian, Egypt
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Pseudotissotiidae
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Choffaticeras segne
(Solger 1903)
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Globothalamea
- Rotaliida
- Cibicididae
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Cibicides sp.
Monfort 1808
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Globothalamea
- Rotaliida
- Gavelinellidae
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Gavelinella sandidgei
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Gyroidina sp.
d'Orbigny 1826
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Globothalamea
- Rotaliida
- Anomalinidae
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Anomalinoides informal sp. 1
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unclassified
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Ammobaculoides mosbyensis
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Tubothalamea
- Miliolida
- Hauerinidae
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Quinqueloculina sp.
d'Orbigny 1826
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Turrilinidae
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Neobulimina canadensis
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Marginotruncanidae
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Whiteinella baltica
Douglas and Rankin 1969
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Geography
| Country: | Egypt |
| Coordinates: | 28.7° North, 32.4° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 9.9° North, 26.9° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Turonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 6 |
| Key time interval: | Early Turonian | Ammonoid zone: | Choffaticeras segne total range |
| Age range of interval: | 93.9 - 89.8 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Abu Qada | ||
| Local section: | Wadi Dakhl | Local bed: | T2 |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | silty,sandy "shale" |
| Secondary lithology: | sandstone |
| Environment: | shallow subtidal indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils,microfossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | bulk,smear slide,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 141575 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Aberhan | Enterer: | T. Schossleitner |
| Modifier: | T. Schossleitner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2013-03-29 02:00:56 | Last modified: | 2013-03-29 11:31:37 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2013-03-29 02:00:56 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 46018. | A. El-Sabbagh, A. A. Tantawy, G. Keller, H. Khozyem, J. Spangenberg, T. Adatte, and B. Gertsch. 2011. Stratigraphy of the Cenomanian-Turonian Oceanic Anoxic Event OAE2 in shallow shelf sequences of NE Egypt. Cretaceous Research 30:1-18 [M. Aberhan/T. Schossleitner/T. Schossleitner] |