Gebel Araif en Naqa, Lower Ceratites-beds (Triassic of Egypt)

Where: Shamal Sina, Egypt (30.4° N, 34.4° E: paleocoordinates 13.3° S, 34.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Triassic (247.2 - 237.0 Ma)

• ?Middle Muschelkalk

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by December 1956-January 1957

Primary reference: G. Haas. 1959. On some fragments of the dermal skeleton of Placodontia from the Trias of Araif en Naqa, Sinai Peninsula. Kungliga Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar, Fjärde Serien 7(4):1-19 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 75279: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 04.10.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Placodontia -
"? Psephosaurus sinaiticus n. sp." = Psephosauriscus sinaiticus
"? Psephosaurus sinaiticus n. sp." = Psephosauriscus sinaiticus Rieppel 2002 placodont
Actinopteri
 Perleidiformes - Perleididae
Perleididae indet. Brough 1931