Where: Egypt (26.2° N, 34.3° E: paleocoordinates 26.1° N, 34.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

• probably oxygen isotope stage 9, 330-290 ka

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. S. El-Sorogy. 2008. Contributions to the Pleistocene coral reefs of the Red Sea coast, Egypt. Arab Gulf Journal of Scientific Research 26:63-85 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 120130: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 08.11.2011, edited by Mihaela Krause

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