Where: Egypt (25.7° N, 30.7° E: paleocoordinates 9.3° N, 26.3° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Duwi Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, yellow phosphorite
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Repository: Al-Azhar University Geological Museum
Primary reference: A. G. A. Hewaidy, G. M. El Qot, and E. S. M. Moneer. 2019. Campanian-early Eocene cephalopods from Kharga Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt. Annales de Paléontologie 105:45-61 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 199918: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 20.02.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Baculites ovatus Say 1820 ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
"Cucullaea (Cucullaea) schweinfurthi" = Trigonarca schweinfurthi
"Cucullaea (Cucullaea) schweinfurthi" = Trigonarca schweinfurthi Quaas 1902 clam | |
Lyropecten acuteplicatus Alth 1850 scallop | |
Glossus chargehensis clam |