North Berenice (Pleistocene to of Egypt)

Where: Egypt (24.2° N, 35.4° E: paleocoordinates 24.2° N, 35.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Pleistocene to Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.0 Ma)

• 2 Middle Pleistocene and 1 Late Pleistocene unit at the Red Sea coast, not stated in text from which unit corals were collected

• 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: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 120203: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 08.11.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
"Goniastrea aspera" = Coelastrea aspera, "Favia veroni" = Dipsastraea veroni, Hydnophora exesa
"Goniastrea aspera" = Coelastrea aspera Verrill 1866 stony coral
"Favia veroni" = Dipsastraea veroni Moll and Borel-Best 1984 stony coral
Hydnophora exesa Pallas 1766 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites (Synaraea) undulata Klunzinger 1879 stony coral
Goniopora planulata Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Fungiidae
Fungia (Verrillofungia) concinna Verrill 1864 stony coral
Cycloseris cyclolites Lamarck 1801 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Siderastreidae
"Coscinaraea columna" = Psammocora columna
"Coscinaraea columna" = Psammocora columna Dana 1846 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Euphylliidae
Galaxea fascicularis Linnaeus 1767 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Seriatopora caliendrum Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora valenciennesi Milne-Edwards and Haime 1860 stony coral
Acropora latistella Brook 1892 stony coral
Acropora valida Dana 1846 stony coral