Gebel Gifata : Lower Kharga Shale (Cretaceous of Egypt)

Where: Egypt (25.5° N, 29.2° E: paleocoordinates 12.1° N, 23.9° E)

When: Lower Kharga Shale Member (Dakhla Formation), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray shale

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. A. Tantawy, G. Keller, T. Adatte, W. Stinnesbeck, A. Kassab and P. Schulte. 2001. Maastrichtian to Paleocene depositional environment of the Dakhla Formation, Western Desert, Egypt: sedimentology, mineralogy, and integrated micro- and macrofossil biostratigraphies. Cretaceous Research 22:795-827 [L. Ivany/P. Wall/P. Wall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 46604: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 20.01.2005

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculanidae indet. Adams and Adams 1858 pointed nut clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Chlamys sp. Röding 1798 scallop
Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Callianassidae
Callianassidae indet. Dana 1852 decapod
 Ichnofossils -
Chondrites sp. von Sternberg 1833