Where: Egypt (29.3° N, 34.7° E: paleocoordinates 8.2° N, 28.4° E)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Middle siliciclastic/carbonate Member (Galala Formation), Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; gray, green, yellow floatstone and green, yellow rudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: bulk,
Primary reference: W. S. Ayoub-Hannaa. 2011. Taxonomy and palaeoecology of the Cenomanian-Turonian macroinvertebrates from eastern Sinai, Egypt (part A). 1-418 [M. Aberhan/T. Schossleitner/T. Schossleitner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 140238: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 05.03.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Neolobites vibrayeanus d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite | |
Angulithes mermeti Montfort 1802 | |
Gastropoda | |
Pterodonta deffisi snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Granocardium productum Sowerby 1832 cockle
Protocardia hillana Sowerby 1813 cockle | |
Tenea delletrei clam | |
Modiolus aequalis Sowerby 1818 mussel | |
Pseudolimea itieriana Pictet and Roux 1852 file clam | |
Phelopteria atra pearl oyster | |
Ilymatogyra africana Lamarck 1801 oyster |