Where: Egypt (28.7° N, 33.2° E: paleocoordinates 7.8° N, 27.5° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Raha Formation, Middle Cenomanian to Middle Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified marl and lithified shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression, original aragonite, original calcite
Collection methods: Description of collected corals, coralline sponges, and bryozoans is outside the scope of the study.
Primary reference: G. M. El Qot. 2006. Late Cretaceous macrofossils from Sinai, Egypt. Beringeria 36:3-163 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 114792: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 24.08.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
"Hemiaster (Mecaster) batnensis" = Mecaster batnensis
"Hemiaster (Mecaster) batnensis" = Mecaster batnensis Coquand 1862 heart urchin | |
Bivalvia | |
Ilymatogyra africana Lamarck 1801 oyster
Rhynchostreon suborbiculatum Lamarck 1801 oyster
Ceratostreon flabellatum Goldfuss 1833 oyster | |
Paraesa faba Sowerby 1827 venus clam | |
Tenea delettrei Coquand 1862 clam | |
Pholadomya (Pholadomya) vignesi Lartet 1877 clam | |
Sphaera corrugata Sowerby 1822 clam
Lucina cf. masylaea clam | |
Maghrebella forgemoli Coquand 1862 clam |