Gebel Yelleg, Wata Formation, Sinai - Bed 54 (Cretaceous to 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: Coilopoceras requienianum ammonoid zone, upper carbonate Member (Wata Formation), Middle Turonian to Middle Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• chalky limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

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 114904: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 25.08.2011, edited by Mihaela Krause

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• See reference for (partly lumped) abundance data.
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Coilopoceratidae
Coilopoceras requienianum Orbigny 1841 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Pseudotissotiidae
Thomasites rollandi Peron 1890 ammonite
"Choffaticeras segne" = Choffaticeras (Choffaticeras) segne Solger 1903 ammonite
Bivalvia
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Radiolites cf. lewyi rudist
Radiolites cf. lewyi lewyi
Radiolites sauvagesi d'Hombres-Firmas 1838 rudist
Durania gaensis Dacque 1903 rudist
"Durania arnaudi" = Durania cornupastoris Des Moulins 1826 rudist