Gebel Areif El-Naqa, bed 13 (Cretaceous of Egypt)

Where: Egypt (30.4° N, 34.5° E: paleocoordinates 9.3° N, 28.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Carbonate Member (Halal Formation), Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; gray limestone and green, yellow marl

• gray hard limestone, intercalated with greenish yellow marl

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

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 140612: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 12.03.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Osteomya sp. Moesch 1874 clam
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Ceratostreon flabellatum Goldfuss 1833 oyster
Ilymatogyra africana Lamarck 1801 oyster
Rhynchostreon suborbiculatum Lamarck 1801 oyster
Gyrostrea delettrei Coquand 1862 oyster
Echinoidea
 Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
Hemiaster syriacus Conrad in Lynch 1852 heart urchin