Wadi Quseib, Sinai, Galala Fm, Pchelinsevia coquandiana association (Cretaceous to of Egypt)

Where: Egypt (29.3° N, 34.7° E: paleocoordinates 8.2° N, 28.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Galala Formation, Early/Lower Cenomanian to Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; wackestone and marl

• marly wackestones and marls

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: W. Ayoub-Hannaa and F. T. Fürsich. 2012. Palaeoecology and environmental significance of benthic associations from the Cenomanian-Turonian of eastern Sinai, Egypt. Beringeria (42)93-138 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 150614: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 12.09.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Meandrinidae
Tortoflabellum sp. Squires 1958 stony coral
Gastropoda
 Trochoidea - Trochidae
 Cerithioidea - Batillariidae
Pyrazus valeriae de Verneuil and de Loriere 1868 snail
 Architaenioglossa - Ampullinidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Tylostomatidae
Tylostoma cossoni Thomas and Peron 1889 snail
Pterodonta sp. d'Orbigny 1843 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Campanilidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae
Aporrhais sp. da Costa 1778 snail
Harpagodes nodosus Sowerby 1823 snail
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
 Pectinida - Chondrodontidae
 Pectinida - Plicatulidae
Plicatula (Plicatula) ferryi Coquand 1862 scallop
 Pectinida - Neitheoidae
Neithea (Neithea) sp. Drouet 1824 scallop
Neithea (Neithea) dutrugei Dutrugei 1862 scallop
 Lucinida - Mactromyidae
Clisocolus corrugatus Popenoe 1937 clam
 Hippuritida - Requieniidae
 Hippuritida - Ichthyosarcolitidae
"Ichthyosarcolites sp." = Icthyosarcolites
"Ichthyosarcolites sp." = Icthyosarcolites Desmarest 1817 rudist
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Praeradiolites sp. Douvillé 1902 rudist
Eoradiolites liratus Conrad 1852 rudist
 Cardiida - Cardiidae