Where: Egypt (26.8° N, 34.0° E: paleocoordinates 26.8° N, 34.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• 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 120204: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 08.11.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Hydrozoa | |
Millepora dichotoma Forskal 1775 fire coral | |
Anthozoa | |
"Favia lacuna" = Dipsastraea lacuna
"Favia lacuna" = Dipsastraea lacuna Veron et al. 2000 stony coral | |
Favia danae Verrill 1872 stony coral | |
Fungia (Danafungia) klunzingeri Doederlein 1901 stony coral
Cycloseris patelliformis Boschma 1923 stony coral | |
Porites nodifera Klunzinger 1879 stony coral |