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Tanis is a paleontological site in southwestern North Dakota, United States. It is part of the heavily studied Hell Creek Formation , a geological region renowned for many significant fossil discoveries from the Upper Cretaceous and lower Paleocene .
Tanis is unattested before the 19th Dynasty of Egypt, when it was the capital of the 14th nome of Lower Egypt. [9] [a] A temple inscription datable to the reign of Ramesses II mentions a "Field of Tanis", while the city in se is securely attested in two 20th Dynasty documents: the Onomasticon of Amenope and the Story of Wenamun, as the home place of the pharaoh-to-be Smendes.
When a type locality is listed as the site for a formation with many good outcrops, the site is flagged with a note ([Note 2]). When a particular site of note is listed for an extensive fossil-bearing formation, but that site is somehow atypical, it is also flagged with a note ([Note 3]).
Tanis site Very end of the Maastrichtian USA; Part of the Hell Creek Formation, is believed to have been deposited at the moment the shockwave from the Chicxulub impactor reached North America Tiaojishan Formation. Bathonian-Oxfordian China; Xiagou Formation. Aptian China; Yixian Formation [4] Barremian [4] China [4]
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