Western Desert, Egypt: Late/Upper Maastrichtian, Egypt
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda
- Turritellidae
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Turritella forgemolli
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Turritella sexlineata
Roemer 1841
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Gryphaeidae
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Exogyra overwegi
von Buch 1852
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Arcticidae
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Veniella drui
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originally entered as "Veneilla drui" | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Veneridae
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Meretrix rohlfsi
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Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Carditidae
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Venericardia quassi
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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 |
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] |