Where: Shamal Sina, Egypt (30.4° N, 34.4° E: paleocoordinates 14.2° S, 34.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Anisian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)
• Age based on the presence of Beneckeia (likely Anisian, possibly upper Anisian)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Sadek & Moon
Primary reference: G. H. Awad. 1945. On the occurence of Marine Triassic (Muschelkalk) deposits in Sinai. Bulletin de L’Institut d’Egypte 27:397-429 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen/B. Allen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 206058: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 29.10.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Beneckeia levantina Parnes 1962 ceratite | |
Nautilida indet. Agassiz 1847 nautiloid | |
Gastropoda | |
"Omphaloptycha gregaria" = Buccinites gregarius
"Omphaloptycha gregaria" = Buccinites gregarius Schlotheim 1820 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Dacromya nagaensis n. sp., Leda elliptica
Dacromya nagaensis n. sp. Awad 1945 pointed nut clam
Leda elliptica Goldfuss 1837 pointed nut clam | |
Nucula subaequilatera Schafhaeutl 1865 nut clam | |
"Anodontophora muensteri" = Unionites muensteri
"Anodontophora muensteri" = Unionites muensteri Wissmann 1841 clam | |
"Pseudocorbula subundata" = Tapes subundata
"Pseudocorbula subundata" = Tapes subundata Schauroth 1855 venus clam | |
Schafhaeutlia sp. Cossmann 1897 clam | |
"Myophoria elegans" = Elegantinia elegans, "Myophoria laevigata" = Neoschizodus laevigatus, "Myophoria cardissoides" = Neoschizodus cardissoides, Myophoria germanica, Myophoria coxi n. sp.
"Myophoria elegans" = Elegantinia elegans Dunker 1849 clam
"Myophoria laevigata" = Neoschizodus laevigatus Ziethen 1830 clam
"Myophoria cardissoides" = Neoschizodus cardissoides Ziethen 1830 clam
Myophoria germanica Hohenstein 1914 clam
Myophoria coxi n. sp. Awad 1945 clam | |
Modiola raibliana Bittner 1895 mussel | |
"Plicatula (Pseudoplacunopsis) fissistriata" = Placunopsis fissistriata
"Plicatula (Pseudoplacunopsis) fissistriata" = Placunopsis fissistriata Winckler 1861 scallop | |
"Pseudomonotis inaequistriatus" = Leptochondria albertii
"Pseudomonotis inaequistriatus" = Leptochondria albertii Goldfuss 1838 scallop | |
"Pecten (Syncyclonema) discites" = Entolium discites
"Pecten (Syncyclonema) discites" = Entolium discites Schlotheim 1820 scallop | |
Hoernesia hesbanensis Cox 1924 oyster | |
Pteria aff. cassiana Bittner 1895 pearl oyster | |
"Enantiostreon spondyloides" = Umbrostrea spondyloides
"Enantiostreon spondyloides" = Umbrostrea spondyloides Schlotheim 1823 oyster | |
"Enantiostreon difformis" = Terquemia difformis
"Enantiostreon difformis" = Terquemia difformis Schlotheim 1820 clam | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Coenothyris julica" = Tibetothyris julica, Coenothyris vulgaris
"Coenothyris julica" = Tibetothyris julica Bittner 1890
Coenothyris vulgaris Schlotheim 1820 |