Where: Nile Valley, Egypt (30.1° N, 31.3° E: paleocoordinates 13.5° N, 27.3° E)
• coordinate based on political unit
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Scapanorhynchus texanus zone, Duwi Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: phosphatic, calcareous sandstone and shale
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 3590: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 05.08.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
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Foraminifera | |
Guembelitria cretacea, "Heterohelix glabrans" = Guembelina glabrans
Guembelitria cretacea Cushman 1933
"Heterohelix glabrans" = Guembelina glabrans Cushman 1938 | |
Rugoglobigerina macrocephala Broennimann 1952 | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Scapanorhynchus texanus Roemer 1852 goblin shark | |
Squalicorax kaupi Agassiz 1843 crow shark
Squalicorax pristodontus Agassiz 1835 crow shark | |
"Cretolamna appendiculata" = Cretalamna appendiculata
"Cretolamna appendiculata" = Cretalamna appendiculata Agassiz 1835 mackerel shark |