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
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
Cephalopoda | |
Thomasites rollandi Peron 1890 ammonite
Choffaticeras (Choffaticeras) segne Solger 1903 ammonite | |
Gastropoda | |
Tylostoma (Tylostoma) globosum Sharpe 1849 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Pholadomya (Pholadomya) pedernalis Roemer 1852 clam | |
Phelopteria caudigera Zittel 1866 pearl oyster | |
Echinoidea | |
Petalobrissus pygmaeus sand dollar |