Gebel Yelleg, Wata Formation, Sinai - Bed 48 (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: upper carbonate Member (Wata Formation), Middle Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified marl

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: 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 114903: 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.
Echinoidea
 Clypeasteroida - Faujasiidae