Gebel Yelleg, Themed Formation, Sinai - Bed 55 (Cretaceous of Egypt)

Where: Egypt (30.4° N, 33.5° E: paleocoordinates 11.8° N, 28.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Metatissotia ewaldi ammonoid zone, Themed Formation, Middle Coniacian (89.3 - 85.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified marl

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 114906: 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 - Tissotiidae
Metatissotia ewaldi von Buch 1848 ammonite