Bee's Friday Site, Dakhleh Oasis: Middle Campanian, Egypt
collected by Churcher 1990-1991
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Theropoda
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Theropoda indet.
Marsh 1881
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Reptilia
- Carcharodontosauridae
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Carcharodontosaurus sp.
Stromer 1931
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Churcher 1999 | ||||||
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Reptilia
- Spinosauridae
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Spinosaurus sp.
Stromer 1915
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Churcher 1999 | ||||||
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Reptilia
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Sauropoda indet.
Marsh 1878
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Dyrosauridae indet.
Stefano 1903
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= Dyrosauroidea indet.
Jouve et al. 2021
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Reptilia
- Mosasauridae
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Mosasauridae indet.
Gervais 1852
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Reptilia
- Testudines
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Chelonia indet.
(Latreille 1800)
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Actinopteri
- Aulopiformes
- Enchodontidae
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Enchodus sp.
Agassiz 1835
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Churcher 1999 | ||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Rajiformes
- Sclerorhynchidae
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cf. Onchosaurus sp.
Gervais 1852
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Mitsukurinidae
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Scapanorhynchus sp.
Woodward 1889
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Anacoracidae
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Squalicorax sp.
Whitley 1939
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Geography
| Country: | Egypt | State/province: | Al Wadi al Jadid |
| Coordinates: | 25.6° North, 29.3° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 9.3° North, 25.0° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Campanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 7 |
| Key time interval: | Middle Campanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "shale" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | deltaic indet. |
| Geology comments: "drift deposits of weathered and water concentrated fragmentary bones, teeth and scales" | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
| Disassociated major elements: | many |
| Disassociated minor elements: | many |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | bulk,surface (float),sieve,field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | ||
| Collectors: | Churcher | Collection dates: | 1990-1991 |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Dakhla | ||
| Database number: | 54083 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano, P. Mannion | Enterer: | M. Carrano, P. Mannion |
| Modifier: | P. Mannion | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-09-22 14:28:02 | Last modified: | 2017-09-28 10:32:17 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-09-22 14:28:02 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 14609. | ETE | C. S. Churcher and D. A. Russell. 1992. Terrestrial vertebrates from Campanians strata in Wadi el-Gedid (Kharga and Dakleh Oases), western desert of Egypt. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 12(3, suppl.):23A [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 33924 | ETE | C. S. Churcher. 1999. A note on the Late Cretaceous vertebrate fauna of the Dakhleh Oasis. In C. S. Churcher & A. J. Mills (ed.), Reports from the Survey of the Dakhleh Oasis, Western Desert of Egypt, 1977–1987. Dakhleh Oasis Project: Monograph 2. Oxbow Monograph 99:55-67 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 33925 | ETE | C. S. Churcher and G. De Iuliis. 2001. A new species of Protopterus and a revision of Ceratodus humei (Dipnoi: Ceratodontiformes) from the Late Cretaceous Mut Formation of eastern Dakhleh Oasis, Western Desert of Egypt. Palaeontology 44(2):305-323 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 74135 | S. Jouve, C. de Muizon, R. Cespedes-Paz, V. Sossa-Soruco, and S. Knoll. 2021. The longirostrine crocodyliforms from Bolivia and their evolution through the Cretaceous–Palaeogene boundary. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 192(2):475-509 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion] |