Gebel Yelleg, Wata Formation, Sinai - Bed 39 (Cretaceous of Egypt)

Where: Egypt (30.4° N, 33.5° E: paleocoordinates 11.4° N, 27.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Choffaticeras segne - Thomasites rollandi ammonoid zone, lower carbonate Member (Wata Formation), Early/Lower Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified limestone and lithified, argillaceous limestone

• chalky, argillaceous, sandy and dolomitic 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 114897: 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 - Pseudotissotiidae
Thomasites rollandi Peron 1890 ammonite
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Tylostomatidae
Bivalvia
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
 Ostreida - Pteriidae
Phelopteria caudigera Zittel 1866 pearl oyster
Echinoidea
 Clypeasteroida - Faujasiidae