LT35: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Egypt

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Lobophylliidae
Acanthastrea echinata (Dana 1846)
0.69 %-area
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Stylophora sp. Schweigger 1819
0.69 %-area
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Fungiidae
Fungia sp. Lamarck 1801
0.69 %-area
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Cyphastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
0.69 %-area
Favites sp. Link 1807
2.76 %-area
Platygyra sp. Ehrenberg 1834
0.69 %-area
Platygyra crosslandi (Matthai 1928)
1.38 %-area
Echinopora gemmacea (Lamarck 1816)
4.14 %-area
Goniastrea retiformis (Lamarck 1816)
24.83 %-area
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Faviidae
Favia sp. Oken 1815
1.38 %-area
see common names

Geography
Country:Egypt State/province:Sinai County:Ras Mohammed National Park
Coordinates: 27.8° North, 34.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:27.8° North, 34.2° East
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
Stage:Late/Upper Pleistocene 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.12900 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Glacial or sequence phase:interglacial
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection,observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:109236
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:H. Mewis
Created:2011-05-13 21:31:20 Last modified:2011-05-13 07:31:20
Access level:authorizer only Released:2016-05-13 21:31:20
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
36125. H. Mewis. 2011. Field work Sinai. [W. Kiessling/H. Mewis/H. Mewis]