Quseir
Description
Source: Wikipédia
The Quseir Formation is a geological formation in the vicinity of the Kharga Oasis in Egypt. It is Campanian in age. The lithology largely consists of soft shale with hard bands of sandstone, siltstone and phosphorite. The environment of deposition was nearshore to freshwater fluvio-lacustrine characterized by moist and aquatic habitats with a tropical warm-humid climate. It is conformably overlain by the marine late Campanian-Maastrichtian Duwi Formation, and unconformably overlies the Turonian Taref Formation. The sauropod dinosaurs Mansourasaurus and Igai are known from the formation, as well as the proximal fibula of an indeterminate theropod and possible remains tentively assigned to Spinosaurus. Additionally the lungfish genera Lavocatodus and Protopterus, the crocodyliform Wahasuchus and the bothremydid turtle Khargachelys are also known.
Découvertes
Source: The Paleobiology Database
Site(s) correspondant(s) à cette formation: 9
Kharga Oasis : Al Wadi al Jadid - ? 14609 Al Wadi al Jadid, Kharga Oasis- Bee's Friday Site, Dakhleh Oasis : Al Wadi al Jadid - ? 14609 33924 33925 Dakhleh oasis, Al Wadi al Jadid, 200 km NW of Kharga
- South of Baris, Kharga Oasis : ? - ? 33391 81224 85336 East of Maks El-Bahari, southeast of the town of Baris, roughly 500 m east of the Darb Al Arbaein, Kharga Oasis, Western Desert of Egypt (approximately 24°35′36′′N, 30°35′57′′E)
- Lungfish Bluff, Wadi el-Battikh : Al Wadi al Jadid - ? 33925 Lungfish Bluff, Wadi el-Battikh, eastern Dakhleh Oasis
- north of road between Mut and Balat : New Valley - ? 64842 84705 north of road between Mut and Balat, Dakhla Oasis, Western Desert
- Near Tineida, Dakhla Oasis (El Hindaw Member [general]) : New Valley - ? 75716 Near the village of Tineida
- Baris area, Kharga Oasis (general) : ? - ? 75716 84705
- near Tineida, Dakhla Oasis (Mut Member) : New Valley - ? 75716 84705 Near the village of Tineida
- Qarn Gennah : New Valley - ? 83904 85824 The present study area is located east of Ganah village, about 10 km south of the Kharga oasis (South Western Desert, Egypt), where the basal part of the Quseir Formation is exposed
Publication(s)
La base comprend 11 publication(s).
Source: The Paleobiology Database
- ↑1 2 3 4 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
- ↑1 C. S. Churcher. 1999. A note on the Late Cretaceous vertebrate fauna of the Dakhleh Oasis. Reports from the Survey of the Dakhleh Oasis, Western Desert of Egypt, 1977–1987. Dakhleh Oasis Project: Monograph 2. Oxbow Monograph 99:55-67
- ↑1 2 3 C. S. Churcher and G. De Iuliis. 2001. A new species of Protopterus and a revision of Ceratodus humei (Dipnoi: Ceratodontiformes) from the Late Cretaceous Mut Formation of eastern Dakhleh Oasis, Western Desert of Egypt. Palaeontology 44(2):305-323 (https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-4983.00181)
- ↑1 2 W. Brinkmann and E. Buffetaut. 1990. Ein Dinosaurier-Teilskelett (Sauropoda) aus der Ober-Kreide von Ägypten [A dinosaur partial skeleton (Sauropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of Egypt]. Nachrichten-Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft 43:119-120
- ↑1 M. F. Wiechmann. 1999. Ein Titanosaurier-Teilskelett aus dem Campan von Ägypten/Western Desert [A partial titanosaur skeleton from the Campanian of Egypt/Western Desert]. Jahrestagung der Paläontologischen Gesellschaft, Zurich 69:81-82
- ↑1 E. Gorscak, M. C. Lamanna, and D. Schwarz, V. Díez Díaz, B. S. Salem, H. M. Sallam, M. F. Wiechmann. 2023. A new titanosaurian (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Quseir Formation of the Kharga Oasis, Egypt. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 42(6):e2199810:1-30 (https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2023.2199810)
- ↑1 2 3 4 5 6 H. M. Sallam, P. M. O'Connor, and M. Kora, J. J. W. Sertich, E. R. Seiffert, M. Faris, K. Ouda, I. El-Dawoudi, S. Saber, S. El-Sayed. 2016. Vertebrate paleontological exploration of the Upper Cretaceous succession in the Dakhla and Kharga Oases, Western Desert, Egypt. Journal of African Earth Sciences 117:223-234 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2016.01.022)
- ↑1 H. M. Sallam, E. Gorscak, and P. M. O.'Connor, I. A. El-Dawoudi, S. El-Sayed, S. Saber, M. A. Kora, J. J. W. Sertich, E. R. Seiffert, M. C. Lamanna. 2018. New Egyptian sauropod reveals Late Cretaceous dinosaur dispersal between Europe and Africa. Nature Ecology & Evolution 2(3):445-451 (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-017-0455-5)
- ↑1 2 3 4 B. S. Salem, P. M. O'Connor, and E. Gorscak, S. El-Sayed, J. J. W. Sertich, E. Seiffert, H. M. Sallam. 2021. Dinosaur remains from the upper Cretaceous (Campanian) of the western desert, Egypt. Cretaceous Research 123:104783 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2021.104783)
- ↑1 2 M. AbdelGawad, A. Pérez-García, and R. Hirayama, S. Mohesn, A.-A. Tantawy, G. Abu El-Kheir. 2023. The First Side-Necked Turtle (Pleurodira, Bothremydidae) from the Campanian (Late Cretaceous) of Egypt. Diversity 15:284:1-11 (https://doi.org/10.3390/d15020284)
- ↑1 D. G. A. Wahba, G. A. Abu El-Kheir, and A. A. Tantawy, M. AbdelGawad. 2023. A new record of saltasaurids in Africa; new evidence from the Middle Campanian, Western Desert, Egypt. Historical Biology (https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2023.2252445)
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