Gebel El-Hamra, Raha Formation, Sinai - Bed 19 (Cretaceous to of Egypt)

Where: Egypt (30.0° N, 32.7° E: paleocoordinates 9.2° N, 27.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Raha Formation, Early/Lower Cenomanian to Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, 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 114911: 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
 Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
 Arbacioida - Arbaciidae
Goniopygus menardi Desmarest in Defrance 1925 sea urchin
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Melongenidae
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
Aenona cenomanensis Abbass 1962 tellin clam
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
Tenea delettrei Coquand 1862 clam
 Pandorida - Laternulidae