Halal Fm., Gebel Raghawi section (Cretaceous of Egypt)

Where: Sinai, Egypt (30.8° N, 33.5° E: paleocoordinates 7.8° N, 27.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Halal Formation, Middle Albian (109.0 - 105.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: Y. Salama, M. Grammer, S. Saber, S. El-Shazly, and G. Abdel-Gawad. 2018. Sequence Stratigraphy and Rudist Facies Development of the Upper Barremian-Lower Cenomanian Platform, Northern Sinai, Egypt. Acta geologica sinica 92(1):286-310 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 193561: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 29.05.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Orbitolinacea - Orbitolinidae
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
Rhodophyceae
  - Solenoporaceae
Solenopora sp. Dybowski 1877
Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Eoradiolites plicatus Conrad 1852 rudist
 Hippuritida - Caprinulidae
Neocaprina sp. Plenicar 1961 rudist
Neocaprina raghawiensis Steuber and Bachmann 2002 rudist
Sellaea sp. Stefano 1889 rudist
 Hippuritida - Requieniidae
Toucasia sp. Munier-Chalmas 1873 rudist