Gebel Yelleg, Galala Formation, Sinai - Bed 31 (Cretaceous of Egypt)

Where: Egypt (30.4° N, 33.5° E: paleocoordinates 9.4° N, 27.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Neolobites vibrayeanus ammonoid zone, Galala Formation, Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified marl

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 114887: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 25.08.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• See reference for (partly lumped) abundance data.
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Engonoceratidae
Neolobites vibrayeanus d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite
Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Nerineidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Tylostomatidae
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia hillana Sowerby 1813 cockle
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
Arctica picteti Coquand 1862 clam
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Costagyra olisiponensis Sharpe 1850 oyster
Ilymatogyra africana Lamarck 1801 oyster
 Ostreida - Flemingostreidae
Ambigostrea pseudovillei Malchus 1990 oyster