Bee's Friday Site, Dakhleh Oasis (Cretaceous of Egypt)

Also known as Dakhla

Where: Al Wadi al Jadid, Egypt (25.6° N, 29.3° E: paleocoordinates 9.3° N, 25.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Mut Member (Quseir Formation), Middle Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• "a few metres below the Duwi Formation"

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deltaic; shale

• "drift deposits of weathered and water concentrated fragmentary bones, teeth and scales"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Churcher in 1990-1991

Collection methods: bulk, surface (float), sieve,

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 54083: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 22.09.2005, edited by Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia -
 Theropoda -
 Theropoda - Spinosauridae
Spinosaurus sp.1 Stromer 1915 tetanuran theropod
 Theropoda - Carcharodontosauridae
Carcharodontosaurus sp.1 Stromer 1931 allosauroid
 Loricata -
Dyrosauroidea indet.2 Jouve et al. 2021 crocodilian
 Testudines -
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines Batsch 1788 turtle
 Squamata - Mosasauridae
Mosasauridae indet. Gervais 1852 mosasaur
Actinopteri
 Aulopiformes - Enchodontidae
Enchodus sp.1 Agassiz 1835
Chondrichthyes
 Lamniformes - Mitsukurinidae
Scapanorhynchus sp. Woodward 1889 goblin shark
 Lamniformes - Anacoracidae
Squalicorax sp. Whitley 1939 crow shark
 Rajiformes - Sclerorhynchidae
cf. Onchosaurus sp. Gervais 1852 ray