The studies of benthic calcareous foraminifera of the Maastrichtian–early Paleocene Dakhla Formation in Gebel Um El-Ghanayem (Western Desert, Egypt), improve reconstruction of depositional environments of these successions. In total, 68 taxa of benthic foraminifera were identified in the studied succession.|The late Maastrichtian assemblages (Zone CF3) are dominate...