Wadi El Matuli I: Late/Upper Campanian, Egypt

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Heterohelicidae
Guembelitria cretacea Cushman 1933
Heterohelix glabrans (Cushman 1938)
original and current combination Guembelina glabrans
Globotruncanidae
Rugoglobigerina macrocephala Broennimann 1952
Lituolida - Haplophragmoididae
Haplophragmoides calculus
Haplophragmoides rota
Lituolida - Lituolidae
Lituola difformis
Ammobaculites stephensoni
Ammobaculites agrestis
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Mitsukurinidae
Scapanorhynchus texanus (Roemer 1852)
see common names

Geography
Country:Egypt State/province:Nile Valley
Coordinates: 30.1° North, 31.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:13.5° North, 27.3° East
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Campanian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 7
*Epoch:Senonian
*International age/stage:Late/Upper Campanian
Key time interval:Late/Upper Campanian Zone: Scapanorhynchus texanus
Age range of interval:83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Duwi
Local section:Wadi El Mutuli
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: phosphorite
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:3592
Authorizer:M. Patzkowsky Enterer:K. Layou
Modifier:C. Visaggi Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-08-05 09:04:49 Last modified:2004-03-11 16:25:05
Access level:the public Released:2000-11-20 13:53:19
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
215. 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]