Western Desert, Egypt: Early Paleocene, Egypt

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Aporrhaidae
Anchura schweinfurthi
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Architectonicidae
Heliacus tenuilineatus
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula chargensis Quaas 1902
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana protexta
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
Venericardia libyca
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbula acutata
see common names

Geography
Country:Egypt State/province:Western Desert
Coordinates: 25.5° North, 29.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:13.1° North, 24.0° East
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Paleocene
Stage: Danian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 1
*Period:Tertiary *Epoch:Early/Lower Paleocene
Key time interval: Early Paleocene Zone:  Nucula chargensis/Venericardia libyca
Age range of interval: 66 - 61.6 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Kurkur
Local section:Teneida
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "shale"
Secondary lithology: "carbonate"
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:3131
Authorizer:M. Patzkowsky Enterer:A. Krug, K. Layou
Modifier:A. Krug Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-07-27 10:58:43 Last modified:2002-07-02 09:53:05
Access level:the public Released:1999-07-27 10:58:43
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
144. 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]