Tineida: Late/Upper Campanian, Egypt

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri - Aulopiformes - Enchodontidae
Enchodus tineidae n. sp. Holloway et al. 2017
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Egypt
Coordinates: 25.5° North, 29.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:9.2° North, 25.0° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Campanian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 7
Key time interval:Late/Upper Campanian
Age range of interval:83.50000 - 70.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Duwi
Stratigraphy comments: The middle–upper portion of the Duwi Formation, upper Campanian (73 Ma), Upper Cretaceous.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Disassociated major elements:all
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:189949
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2017-11-21 14:53:32 Last modified:2017-11-21 14:53:32
Access level:the public Released:2017-11-21 14:53:32
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

63848. W. L. Holloway, K. M. Claeson, H. M. Sallam, S. El-Sayed, M. Kora, J. J. W. Sertich, and P. M. O'Connor. 2017. A new species of the neopterygian fish Enchodus from the Duwi Formation, Campanian, Late Cretaceous, Western Desert, central Egypt. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 62(3):603-611 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]