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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Nuculanidae indet. Adams and Adams 1858 pointed nut clam | |
Chlamys sp. Röding 1798 scallop | |
Malacostraca | |
Callianassidae indet. Dana 1852 decapod | |
Chondrites sp. von Sternberg 1833 |