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Dakhla - Ammonite Hill, Egypt

Formation	Dakhla
Member	Ammonite Hill
Age:	72.1 - 66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Interval	Maastrichtian
Lithology	sandstone/claystone, "siliciclastic"
Number of Collections	8
Number of Occurrences	14

Recorded Sample Locations

Location	Region	Stratigraphic Name
Ammonite Hill interdunal channel 31	Matrouh Governorate, Egypt	Dakhla - Ammonite Hill
Great Sand Sea	New Valley Governorate, Egypt	Dakhla - Ammonite Hill

Recorded Fossils

Accepted Name	Type	Hierarchy	Age
Pelomedusoides superfamily	4.7	Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Testudines : Pelomedusoides	72.1 - 66 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Arenila krebsi species	7	Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Testudines : Bothremydidae : Arenila : *Arenila krebsi*	72.1 - 66 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Bothremydidae family	5	Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Testudines : Bothremydidae	72.1 - 66 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Zolhafah bella species	7	Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Testudines : Bothremydidae : Zolhafah : *Zolhafah bella*	72.1 - 66 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Tasbacka sp. genus	6	Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Testudines : Cheloniidae : *Tasbacka*	72.1 - 66 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Somphospondyli unranked clade	99	Animalia : Chordata : Saurischia : Somphospondyli	72.1 - 66 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Acutostrea incurva species	7	Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Ostreida : Flemingostreidae : Acutostrea : *Acutostrea incurva*	72.1 - 66 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Agerostrea ungulatus species	7	Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Ostreida : Flemingostreidae : Agerostrea : *Agerostrea ungulatus*	72.1 - 66 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Ambigostrea tripolitana species	7	Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Ostreida : Ostreidae : Ambigostrea : *Ambigostrea tripolitana*	72.1 - 66 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous

References

Malchus N. (1990) Revision der Kreide-Austern (Bivalvia: Pteriomorphia) Ägyptens (Biostratigraphie, Systematik), Berliner Geowissenschaftliche Abhandlungen A 125

Lapparent de Broin F., Werner C. (1998) New Late Cretaceous turtles from the Western Desert, Egypt, Annales de Paléontologie 84 2, 131-214 doi:10.1016/S0753-3969(98)80005-0

Gaffney E. S., Tong H., et al (2006) Evolution of the side-necked turtles: The families Bothremydidae, Euraxemydidae, and Araripemydidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 300, 1-318

Mannion P. D., Upchurch P., et al (2013) Osteology of the Late Jurassic Portuguese sauropod dinosaur Lusotitan atalaiensis (Macronaria) and the evolutionary history of basal titanosauriforms, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 168, 98-206

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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