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: Neolobites vibrayeanus ammonoid zone, Raha Formation, Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified shale and lithified claystone
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 114793: 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 | |
Gastropoda | |
Volutoderma elleryi volute | |
"Pterocera incerta" = Harpagodes nodosus
"Pterocera incerta" = Harpagodes nodosus Sowerby 1823 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Maghrebella forgemoli Coquand 1862 clam | |
Sphaera corrugata Sowerby 1822 clam | |
Tenea delettrei Coquand 1862 clam
Arctica picteti Coquand 1862 clam | |
Paraesa faba Sowerby 1827 venus clam | |
Protocardia hillana Sowerby 1813 cockle | |
Modiolus (Modiolus) aequalis Sowerby 1818 mussel | |
Cucullaea (Idonearca) trigona Seguenza 1882 clam | |
Ceratostreon flabellatum, Costagyra olisiponensis, Ilymatogyra africana, Rhynchostreon suborbiculatum
Ceratostreon flabellatum Goldfuss 1833 oyster
Costagyra olisiponensis Sharpe 1850 oyster
Ilymatogyra africana Lamarck 1801 oyster
Rhynchostreon suborbiculatum Lamarck 1801 oyster | |
"Plicatula auressensis" = Plicatula (Plicatula) auressensis, "Plicatula ferryi" = Plicatula (Plicatula) ferryi
"Plicatula auressensis" = Plicatula (Plicatula) auressensis Coquand 1862 scallop
"Plicatula ferryi" = Plicatula (Plicatula) ferryi Coquand 1862 scallop | |
Neithea (Neithea) dutrugei Dutrugei 1862 scallop | |
Cephalopoda | |
Neolobites vibrayeanus d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite |