Gebel Ekma, Raha Formation, Sinai - Bed 3 (Cretaceous to of Egypt)

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

• See reference for (partly lumped) abundance data.
Echinoidea
 Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
"Hemiaster (Mecaster) batnensis" = Mecaster batnensis
"Hemiaster (Mecaster) batnensis" = Mecaster batnensis Coquand 1862 heart urchin
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Ilymatogyra africana Lamarck 1801 oyster
Rhynchostreon suborbiculatum Lamarck 1801 oyster
Ceratostreon flabellatum Goldfuss 1833 oyster
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Paraesa faba Sowerby 1827 venus clam
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
Tenea delettrei Coquand 1862 clam
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Sphaera corrugata Sowerby 1822 clam
 Carditida - Carditidae
Maghrebella forgemoli Coquand 1862 clam