Western Desert, Egypt: Late Maastrichtian, Egypt

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana producta
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
Venericardia vredenburgi
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus faragi
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Chlamys acutiplicata
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Exogyra overwegi von Buch 1852
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Flemingostreidae
Agerostrea ungulata (Böhm 1891)
Lopha lunata (Nilsson 1840)
see common names

Geography
Country:Egypt State/province:Western Desert
Coordinates: 25.0° North, 30.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:11.5° North, 25.3° East
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 8
*Epoch:Senonian
*International age/stage:Late/Upper Maastrichtian
Key time interval: Late Maastrichtian Zone:  Nuculana producta/Inoceramus regularis
Age range of interval: 72.1 - 66 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Dakhla
Local section:El Gaga
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:3155
Authorizer:M. Patzkowsky Enterer:A. Krug, K. Layou
Modifier:A. Krug Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-07-27 12:36:53 Last modified:2002-07-02 10:04:27
Access level:the public Released:1999-07-27 12:36:53
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]