Turmberg, Naga el Ledaia, 5b (Cretaceous to of Egypt)

Also known as Mahamîd

Where: Al Wadi Al Jadid, Egypt (25.9° N, 32.7° E: paleocoordinates 6.8° N, 26.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Nubian Sandstone Formation, Cenomanian to Cenomanian (100.5 - 83.6 Ma)

• Kassib et al. 2021: The Nubian Sandstone Formation consists mainly of poorly to well- sorted, fine- to coarse-grained, reddish-brown to yellowish sandstone, with some siltstone and/or mudstone intercalations. Youssef (1957) suggested a Santonian age for the Nubian Sandstone Formation. It is considered by other authors to be as old as Cenomanian (Ward & McDonald, 1979). Based on fossil evidence within the overlying Quseir Formation, Issawi, Francis, Youssef, and Osman (2009) assigned a pre-Campanian age for the Nubian Sandstone Formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; breccia

• "breccia"

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. Stromer and W. Weiler. 1930. Ergebnisse der Forschungsreisen Prof. E. Stromers in den Wüsten Ägyptens. VI. Beschreibung von Wirbeltier-Resten aus dem nubischen Sandsteine Oberägyptens und aus ägyptischen Phosphaten nebst Bemerkungen über die Geologie der Umgegend von Mahamîd in Oberägypten [Results of the expeditions of Professor E. Stromer in the Egyptian deserts. IV. Description of vertebrate animal remains from the Nubian Sandstones of Lower Egypt and from the Egyptian Phosphates together with remarks about the geology of the Mahamîd region in Lower Egypt]. Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften Mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Abteilung, Neue Folge 7:1-42 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 70457: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 23.03.2007

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudinata -
Testudinata indet. Oppel 1811 turtle
 Loricata - Goniopholididae
cf. Goniopholis sp. Owen 1842 crocodilian