Where: Janub Sina, Egypt (28.6° N, 33.3° E: paleocoordinates 34.0° S, 31.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Abu Durba Formation, Moscovian (315.2 - 307.0 Ma)

• Upper 12 meters of the section I at Gabal Ekma. Idiognathodus-Neognathodus Assemblage Zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, black shale and lithified dolomite

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: M. Kora. 1989. Biostratigraphy of the Late Paleozoic succession in Gabal Ekma, southwestern Sinai, Egypt. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatshefte 1989(5):293-307 [N. Heim/N. Heim/N. Heim]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 46633: authorized by Noel Heim, entered by Noel Heim on 23.01.2005

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