Gebel Ekma, Raha Formation, Sinai - Bed 6 (Cretaceous 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: 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 mixed carbonate-siliciclastic

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 114795: 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
 Euechinoidea - Pseudodiadematidae
 Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
"Hemiaster (Mecaster) batnensis" = Mecaster batnensis
"Hemiaster (Mecaster) batnensis" = Mecaster batnensis Coquand 1862 heart urchin
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Engonoceratidae
Neolobites vibrayeanus d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Vascoceratidae
Vascoceras cf. durandi Thomas and Peron 1889 ammonite
 Nautilida - Nautilidae
Angulithes mermeti Montfort 1802 nautiloid
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Batillariidae
Pyrazus (Pyrazus) valeriae de Verneuil and de Loriere 1868 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Tylostomatidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Colombellinidae
Bivalvia
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula (Nucula) margaritifera Douvillé 1916 nut clam
 Pectinida - Neitheoidae
Neithea (Neithea) dutrugei Dutrugei 1862 scallop
 Pectinida - Plicatulidae
"Plicatula auressensis" = Plicatula (Plicatula) auressensis, "Plicatula fourneli" = Plicatula (Plicatula) fourneli, "Plicatula ferryi" = Plicatula (Plicatula) ferryi
"Plicatula auressensis" = Plicatula (Plicatula) auressensis Coquand 1862 scallop
"Plicatula fourneli" = Plicatula (Plicatula) fourneli Coquand 1862 scallop
"Plicatula ferryi" = Plicatula (Plicatula) ferryi Coquand 1862 scallop
 Ostreida - Flemingostreidae
Ambigostrea pseudovillei Malchus 1990 oyster
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Costagyra olisiponensis Sharpe 1850 oyster
Ilymatogyra africana Lamarck 1801 oyster
Rhynchostreon suborbiculatum Lamarck 1801 oyster
Ceratostreon flabellatum Goldfuss 1833 oyster
Curvostrea rouvillei Coquand 1862 oyster
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Granocardium productum Sowerby 1832 cockle
Protocardia hillana Sowerby 1813 cockle
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
Aenona cenomanensis Abbass 1962 tellin clam
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Paraesa faba Sowerby 1827 venus clam
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
Tenea delettrei Coquand 1862 clam
 Megalodontida - Dicerocardiidae
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Sphaera corrugata Sowerby 1822 clam
"Lucina fallax" = Mesomiltha fallax Forbes 1846 clam
 Carditida - Crassatellidae
 Carditida - Carditidae
 Trigoniida - Megatrigonioidae