Western Desert, Egypt (Paleocene of Egypt)

Where: Western Desert, Egypt (25.5° N, 29.4° E: paleocoordinates 13.1° N, 24.0° E)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pycnodonte simile/Veneri cardia teneidensis zone, Kurkur Formation, Early/Lower Paleocene (66.0 - 61.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shale

• lithology described as a mudstone

Primary reference: A. Kassab, A. Kenawy, and M. Zakhira. 1995. Biostratigraphy of some Upper Cretaceous/Lower Tertiary outcrops from the Egyptian Western Desert. Neues Jahrbuch fuer Geologie und Palaeontologie-Abhandlungen 196(3):309-326 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 3132: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Zack Krug on 27.07.1999, edited by Karen Layou

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella plana turret shell
Bivalvia
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula chargensis Quaas 1902 nut clam
 Carditida - Carditidae
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae