Campanian-early Eocene marine bivalves from the Kharga Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt; systematic palaeontology and palaeobiogeography

Thirty-six species of bivalves, belonging to 22 genera, representative of 16 orders, are systematically described from five upper Campanian-lower Eocene sections in the Kharga Oasis. Stratigraphically, 15 species were recorded from the Palaeocene, 8 from the lower Eocene, 8 from the Maastrichtian, 3 from the Campanian, 1 from the Campanian-Maastrichtian and 1 from the Maastrichtian-Palaeocene. The paleobiogeographic distribution of the...