Where: Egypt (29.7° N, 34.5° E: paleocoordinates 8.6° N, 28.3° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Abu Qada Formation, Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments
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 114813: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 25.08.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Micropedina olisiponensis Forbes in Sharpe 1850 sea urchin | |
Bivalvia | |
Pholadomya (Pholadomya) pedernalis Roemer 1852 clam | |
Protocardia hillana Sowerby 1813 cockle | |
Inoceramus (cf. Inoceramus) pictus Sowerby 1829 clam | |
Phelopteria gravida Coquand 1862 pearl oyster | |
Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesicularis Lamarck 1806 oyster
Ilymatogyra africana Lamarck 1801 oyster | |
Pseudolimea itieriana Pictet and Roux 1852 file clam | |
"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 | |
Cucullaea (Idonearca) trigona Seguenza 1882 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
"Pterocera incerta" = Harpagodes nodosus
"Pterocera incerta" = Harpagodes nodosus Sowerby 1823 snail | |
Cephalopoda | |
Vascoceras cauvini Chudeau 1909 ammonite | |
Pseudaspidoceras pseudonodosoides Choffat 1898 ammonite |