New Findings of Eocene Nautiloids from North Western Desert, Egypt
Journal of African Earth Sciences 159 (2019) 103580 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Journal of African Earth Sciences journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/jafrearsci New findings of eocene nautiloids from north Western Desert, Egypt T ∗ Mohamed F. Aly , Sherief A. Sadek Geology Department, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT Keywords: The Tertiary marine succession of the north Western Desert, Egypt, is rich in vertebrates, molluscs and other Nautiloids invertebrates, but nautiloids are less abundant. Five nautiloid species, are reported herein: Eutrephoceras sp., Sharks Aturoidea parkinsoni, Aturia aturi, Aturia cf. alabamensis and, Aturia cf. gujaratensis. They are collected and Tertiary identified from the lowermost part of Gebel Minqar Tebaghbagh area. The studied section is located 90 km to the Siwa oasis east of Siwa Oasis at the south of western side of the Qattara Depression. The recovered specimens are mostly Western desert crushed, partially fragmented internal molds, mostly showing badly preserved suture lines and dorsal to sub- Egypt central siphuncles. The nautiloids occur in abundance in random orientation through a clastic-dominated suc- cession. They are mostly represented by middle-aged and mature specimens. Recently, the lower part of Gebel Tabaghbagh was assigned to Late Eocene. 1. Introduction southwest of Aswan city, south Western Desert, Hewaidy and Azzab, 2002 described and identified five nautiloid species of the Paleocene The north western Desert of Egypt is almost a plain area. The only age from the Kurkur Formation. Those are Deltoidonautilus polymorphus characteristic features are the Marmarica Limestone plateau and the Hewaidy and Azzab, Deltoidonautilus sp. 1, Deltoidonautilus sp.
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