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CENOMANIAN-TURONIAN BIVALVES AND ECHINOIDS FROM NORTHERN WADI QENA,CENTRAL EASTERN DESERT, EGYPT

Abdel Galil HEWAIDY, Emad NAGM, El Sayed MONEER

Egypt. Jour. Paleontol., Vol. 14, 2014, p. 209-242

The outcrops of the Cenomanian-Turonian rocks are widely distributed and well exposed in the central Eastern Desert and include beds rich with well-preserved macrofauna. Bivalves and echinoids are among the most abundant faunal elements in these strata. However, only few studies have dealt with the bivalves and echinoids at northern Wadi Qena (Malchus, 1990; Kassab & Hegab, 1993; Kora et al., 2001; Abdel Hamid, 2014) and the previous studies of bivalves are concerned only with the oysters. Therefore, this paper aims to enhance the knowledge of the taxonomy of the Cenomanian-Turonian bivalves and echinoids at Wadi Qena by means of a modern systematic approach.
Two sections were measured in the central Eastern Desert at the northern Wadi Qena ; Wadi Abu Had (Lat. 28¢ª 7` 48“ & Long. 32¢ª 25` 26“) and Wadi Swilam sections (Lat. 28¢ª 3` 10“ & Long. 32¢ª 28` 6“). The collected specimens were deposited in the Geological Museum of the Geology Department, Faculty of Science, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt.

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