Sciarauna-el-Ghibli (Cretaceous to of Egypt)

Where: Aswan, Egypt (25.2° N, 32.7° E: paleocoordinates 9.2° N, 27.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Duwi Formation, Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; phosphorite

• "phosphatic layers"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Cortese & Di Stefano

Primary reference: M. Gemmellaro. 1921. Rettili maƫstrichtiani di Egitto [Maastrichtian reptiles of Egypt]. Giornale di Scienze Naturali ed Economiche 32:340-351 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 60599: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 18.05.2006, edited by Philip Mannion

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Squamata - Mosasauridae
Mosasauridae indet. Gervais 1852 mosasaur
 Theropoda - Abelisauridae
Abelisauridae indet.3 Bonaparte and Novas 1985 ceratosaur
 Loricata -
Dyrosauroidea indet.2 Jouve et al. 2021 crocodilian
 Loricata - Dyrosauridae
cf. Phosphatosaurus sp.1 Bergounioux 1955 crocodilian
 Plesiosauria - Plesiosauridae
Plesiosauridae indet. Gray 1825 plesiosaur