Western Desert, Egypt: Late/Upper Maastrichtian, Egypt

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Epitoniidae
Epitonium lobrosa
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana producta
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Exogyra overwegi von Buch 1852
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Chlamys acutiplicatus
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus faragi
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Arcticidae
Veniella drui
originally entered as "Veneilla drui"
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia moabitica
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
Venericardia vredenburgi
originally entered as "Venericaridia vredenburgi"
see common names

Geography
Country:Egypt State/province:Western Desert
Coordinates: 25.5° North, 30.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:12.0° North, 25.1° 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: Nuculana producta/Inoceramus regularis
Age range of interval:72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Dakhla
Local section:Teir-Tarawan
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: argillaceous "carbonate"
Secondary lithology: "shale"
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:3145
Authorizer:M. Patzkowsky Enterer:A. Krug, K. Layou
Modifier:A. Krug Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-07-27 12:02:00 Last modified:2002-07-02 10:00:10
Access level:the public Released:1999-07-27 12:02:00
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]