Where: Egypt (28.7° N, 33.2° E: paleocoordinates 9.8° N, 27.6° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Coilopoceras requienianum ammonoid zone, Wata Formation, Late/Upper Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, silty limestone
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 114802: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 25.08.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
"Hemiaster (Mecaster) fourneli" = Mecaster fourneli
"Hemiaster (Mecaster) fourneli" = Mecaster fourneli Agassiz and Dessor 1847 heart urchin | |
Rachiosoma irregulare sea urchin | |
Bivalvia | |
Pholadomya (Pholadomya) pedernalis Roemer 1852 clam | |
"Plicatula ferryi" = Plicatula (Plicatula) ferryi
"Plicatula ferryi" = Plicatula (Plicatula) ferryi Coquand 1862 scallop | |
Cucullaea (Idonearca) trigona Seguenza 1882 clam | |
Cephalopoda | |
Coilopoceras requienianum Orbigny 1841 ammonite | |
Gastropoda | |
Voluta cf. conspicua volute
Volutomorpha baylei volute |