Sibaiya-Boussaliya III: Early/Lower Maastrichtian, Egypt
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Heterohelicidae
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Guembelitria cretacea
Cushman 1933
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Heterohelix globulosa
(Ehrenberg 1840)
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Heterohelix reussi
(Cushman 1938)
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original and current combination Guembelina reussi | |||||||
Globotruncanidae
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Rugoglobigerina macrocephala
Broennimann 1952
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Globotruncana arca
(Cushman 1926)
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Globotruncana aegyptiaca
Nakkady 1950
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Globotruncana duwi
(Nakkady 1950)
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original and current combination Globotruncana aegyptiaca duwi | |||||||
Planomalinidae
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Globigerinelloides subcarinata
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Globigerinelloides prairiehillensis
Pessagno 1967
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Flemingostreidae
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Lopha villei
(Coquand 1862)
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recombined as Ambigostrea villei | |||||||
Lopha lunata
(Nilsson 1840)
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synonym of Ambigostrea tripolitana | |||||||
Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Gryphaeidae
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Hyotissa semiplana
(Sowerby 1825)
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Ostreidae
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Ostrea scaniensis
Coquand 1869
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synonym of Acutostrea incurva | |||||||
Cameleolopha pauciplicata
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Abruptolopha abrupta
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Bivalvia
- Lucinida
- Lucinidae
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Lucina subnumismalis
Orbigny 1850
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Bivalvia
- Poromyida
- Poromyidae
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Liopistha aequivalves
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Bivalvia
- Pholadomyida
- Pholadomyidae
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Pholadomya salzbergensis
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Glossidae
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Glossus chargeehensis
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Arcticidae
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Venilicardia venreyi
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Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Carditidae
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Venericardia vredenburgi
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Bivalvia
- Nuculanida
- Nuculanidae
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Nuculana puschi
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | Egypt | State/province: | Nile Valley |
Coordinates: | 30.1° North, 31.3° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 16.5° North, 26.3° East | ||
Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||
Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
Stage: | Maastrichtian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 8 | *Epoch: | Senonian |
*International age/stage: | Early/Lower Maastrichtian | ||
Key time interval: | Early/Lower Maastrichtian | Zone: | Lopha villei |
Age range of interval: | 70.60000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Duwi |
Local section: | Sibaiya-Boussaliya |
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | marl |
Secondary lithology: | claystone |
Geology comments: lithology described as interbedded marls and clays updated to these values by JA |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 3589 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Patzkowsky | Enterer: | K. Layou |
Modifier: | C. Visaggi | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 1999-08-05 08:35:46 | Last modified: | 2004-03-11 16:25:05 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2000-11-20 13:53:24 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
215. | A. S. Kassab and A. S. Mohamed. 1996. Upper Cretaceous macrofossils from the Duwi Formation of the Nile Valley, southern Egypt. Neues Jahrbuch fuer Geologie und Palaeontologie-Abhandlungen 200(3):259-284 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou] |