Where: Egypt (25.5° N, 29.2° E: paleocoordinates 12.1° N, 23.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Mawhoob Shale Member (Dakhla Formation), Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, silty shale
Primary reference: A. A. Tantawy, G. Keller, T. Adatte, W. Stinnesbeck, A. Kassab and P. Schulte. 2001. Maastrichtian to Paleocene depositional environment of the Dakhla Formation, Western Desert, Egypt: sedimentology, mineralogy, and integrated micro- and macrofossil biostratigraphies. Cretaceous Research 22:795-827 [L. Ivany/P. Wall/P. Wall]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 46599: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 20.01.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Cephalopoda | |
? Solenoceras sp. Conrad 1860 ammonite | |
Exiteloceras sp. Hyatt 1894 ammonite | |
Baculites sp. Lamarck 1799 ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
Nuculana producta pointed nut clam | |
Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799 nut clam | |
Inoceramus sp. Sowerby 1814 clam | |
Chlamys sp. Röding 1798 scallop | |
Neithea regularis Schlotheim 1813 scallop | |
Arca sp. Linnaeus 1758 ark | |
Protocardia moabitica cockle | |
Meretrix rholfsi venus clam | |
Bicorbula dakhlensi clam | |
"Crassatella ziteli" = Crassatella rothii
"Crassatella ziteli" = Crassatella rothii Fraas 1872 clam |