Wadi El-Deir (Cretaceous of Egypt)

Where: Egypt (28.9° N, 32.7° E: paleocoordinates 8.1° N, 27.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• Middle Cenomanian age

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; black marl and limestone

• greenish marl overlain by dolomitic limestone and underlain by claystone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: S. El-Shazly, M. Kostak, G. Abdel-Gawad, B. Klouckova, S.G. Saber, Y. Felieh Salama, and M. Mazuch and K. 2011. Carbon and oxygen stable isotopes of selected Cenomanian and Turonian rudists from Egypt and Czech Republic, and a note on changes in rudist diversity. Bulletin of Geosciences 86(2):209-226 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 151581: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 07.10.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Acanthoceras amphibolum Morrow 1935 ammonite
Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Eoradiolites liratus Conrad 1852 rudist
Echinoidea
 Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
Hemiaster cubicus heart urchin