Zug el-Bahar section, sample 63 (Pliocene of Egypt)

Where: Egypt (25.8° N, 34.4° E: paleocoordinates 25.6° N, 34.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Borelis cf. pygmaeus zone, Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; calcareous sandstone

• limegrit

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: F. J. Souaya. 1963. Micropaleontology of four sections south of Qoseir, Egypt. Micropaleontology 9(3):233-266 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 147644: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 10.07.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Acervulinacea - Homotrematidae
Carpenteria proteiformis
uncommon specimens
 Rotalioidea - Elphidiidae
Elphidium spp. Monfort 1808
very rare specimens
Florideophyceae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Lithophyllum prelichenoides Lemoine 1917
common specimens
Lithophyllum ghorabi Souaya 1963
common specimens
Amphiroa prefragilissima Johnson 1964
uncommon specimens