Tineida: Late/Upper Campanian, Egypt
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri
- Aulopiformes
- Enchodontidae
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Enchodus tineidae n. sp.
Holloway et al. 2017
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1 specimen | ||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Egypt |
Coordinates: | 25.5° North, 29.3° East (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 9.2° North, 25.0° East |
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
Stage: | Campanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 7 |
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Campanian | ||
Age range of interval: | 83.50000 - 70.60000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Duwi | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: The middle–upper portion of the Duwi Formation, upper Campanian (73 Ma), Upper Cretaceous. |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | mudstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Disassociated major elements: | all |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 189949 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2017-11-21 14:53:32 | Last modified: | 2017-11-21 14:53:32 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2017-11-21 14:53:32 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
63848. | W. L. Holloway, K. M. Claeson, H. M. Sallam, S. El-Sayed, M. Kora, J. J. W. Sertich, and P. M. O'Connor. 2017. A new species of the neopterygian fish Enchodus from the Duwi Formation, Campanian, Late Cretaceous, Western Desert, central Egypt. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 62(3):603-611 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |