Western Desert, Egypt: Late/Upper Maastrichtian, Egypt

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella forgemolli
Turritella sexlineata Roemer 1841
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Exogyra overwegi von Buch 1852
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Arcticidae
Veniella drui
originally entered as "Veneilla drui"
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Meretrix rohlfsi
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
Venericardia quassi
see common names

Geography
Country:Egypt State/province:Western Desert
Coordinates: 25.5° North, 30.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:12.1° North, 24.7° East
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 8
*Epoch:Senonian
*International age/stage:Late/Upper Maastrichtian
Key time interval:Late/Upper Maastrichtian Zone: Venericardia quassi
Age range of interval:70.60000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Dakhla
Local section:Ab Tartur
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "shale"
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:3139
Authorizer:M. Patzkowsky Enterer:A. Krug, K. Layou
Modifier:A. Krug Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-07-27 11:31:07 Last modified:2002-07-02 09:57:35
Access level:the public Released:1999-07-27 11:31:07
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

144. 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]