Where: Egypt (28.7° N, 34.6° E: paleocoordinates 7.6° N, 28.2° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Member (Galala Formation), Middle Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)
• Middle Cenomanian to early Late Cenomanian
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; dolomitic limestone and shale
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: D. K. Pandey, F., T. Fürsich, M. Gameil and W. S. Ayoub-Hannaa. 2011. Aspidiscus cristatus (Lamarck) from the Cenomanian of Wadi Quseib, East Sinai, Egypt. Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 56(1):29-37 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 161467: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 06.09.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Anthozoa | |
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Tortoflabellum sp. Squires 1958 stony coral | |
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Aspidiscus cristatus Lamarck 1801 stony coral | |
| Demospongiae | |
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Actinostromarianina sp. Lecompte 1952 demosponge | |
| Gastropoda | |
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
| Bivalvia | |
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Chondrodonta joanne scallop | |
| Cephalopoda | |
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Neolobites vibrayeanus d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite | |
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Thalassinoides sp. Ehrenberg 1944 | |