Kosseir-el-Khadim: Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian, Egypt
collected by Cortese & Di Stefano

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Abelisauridae
Megalosaurus crenatissimus Depéret 1896
    = Abelisauridae indet. Bonaparte and Novas 1985
Krause et al. 2007
Reptilia
Dyrosaurus phosphaticus (Thomas 1893)
    = Dyrosauroidea indet. Jouve et al. 2021
Jouve et al. 2021
Goniopholididae indet. Cope 1875
    = cf. Phosphatosaurus sp. Bergounioux 1955
Buffetaut 1979
    = Dyrosauroidea indet. Jouve et al. 2021
Jouve et al. 2021
Reptilia - Plesiosauria - Plesiosauridae
Plesiosauridae indet. Gray 1825
Reptilia - Mosasauridae
Mosasauridae indet. Gervais 1852
Globidens aegyptiacus Zdansky 1935
Bardet 2012
recombined as Igdamanosaurus aegyptiacus
Teeth
Globidens phosphaticus Bardet et al. 2005
Bardet 2012
Teeth
see common names

Geography
Country:Egypt State/province:Al Bahr Al Ahmar
Coordinates: 26.1° North, 34.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:10.0° North, 29.3° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:6 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Key time interval:Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian
Age range of interval:83.60000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Duwi
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: phosphorite
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Disassociated major elements:some
Disassociated minor elements:some
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:Cortese & Di Stefano
Metadata
Database number:60607
Authorizer:M. Carrano, P. Mannion Enterer:M. Carrano, J. Tennant, P. Mannion
Modifier:P. Mannion Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-05-18 12:14:52 Last modified:2017-09-28 10:28:58
Access level:the public Released:2006-05-18 12:14:52
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
17417.ETE M. Gemmellaro. 1921. Rettili maëstrichtiani di Egitto [Maastrichtian reptiles of Egypt]. Giornale di Scienze Naturali ed Economiche 32:340-351 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

46107 N. Bardet. 2012. The mosasaur collections of the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle of Paris. Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France 183(1):35-53 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]
37245 E. Buffetaut. 1979. Présence du Crocodilien Phosphatosaurus (Mesosuchia, Dyrosauridae) dans le Paléocène du Niger et du Mali. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 53(3/4):323-333 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
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]
24665ETE D. W. Krause, S. D. Sampson, M. T. Carrano and P. M. O'Connor. 2007. Overview of the history of discovery, taxonomy, phylogeny, and biogeography of Majungasaurus crenatissimus (Theropoda: Abelisauridae) from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar. In S. D. Sampson & D. W. Krause (eds.), Majungasaurus crenatissimus (Theropoda: Abelisauridae) from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Memoir 8. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(2, suppl.):1-20 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/J. Alroy]