Also known as Reef 4261
Where: Saudi Arabia (28.1° N, 34.6° E: paleocoordinates 28.0° N, 34.5° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
• MIS5e
Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; carbonate
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: M. Taviani, P. Montagna, N. M. A. Rasul, L. Angeletti, and W. Bosworth. 2019. Pleistocene Coral Reef Terraces on the Saudi Arabian Side of the Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea. Geological Setting, Palaeoenvironment and Archaeology of the Red Sea [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 198563: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 18.12.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral | |
Fungia sp. Lamarck 1801 stony coral | |
Acropora sp. Oken 1815 stony coral | |
Favia sp. Oken 1815 stony coral | |
Favites sp. Link 1807 stony coral | |
Montastraea sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral | |
Bivalvia | |
Circe sp. Schumacher 1817 venus clam | |
Tridacna sp. Bruguière 1797 cockle | |
Tellinidae sp. Blainville 1814 tellin clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Diodora impedimentum snail | |
Bulla ampulla Linnaeaus 1758 snail | |
"Conomurex fasciatus" = Strombus (Conomurex)
"Conomurex fasciatus" = Strombus (Conomurex) conch | |
Conus arenatus Hwass in Bruguiére 1792 cone shell | |
Euplica turturina snail | |
Cypraeidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 cowry | |
Thecostraca | |
Tetraclita sp. Schumacher 1817 barnacle | |
Echinoidea | |
"Clypeasteridae indet." = Clypeasterina
"Clypeasteridae indet." = Clypeasterina Agassiz 1872 sand dollar | |
Heterocentrotus sp. Brandt 1835 sea urchin |