Upper Cretaceous macrofossils from the Duwi Formation of the Nile Valley, southern Egypt

Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie - Abhandlungen

Volumn 200, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 259-284

  Kassab, A S ^a   Mohamed, A S ^a  

^a Assiut University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; DEPOSITION; FAUNA; FOSSIL RECORD; MAASTRICHTIAN; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MOLLUSC; VERTEBRATE;

NILE VALLEY;

EID: 0042049630     PISSN: 00777749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/njgpa/200/1996/259     Document Type: Article

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