Raha Formation, Gebel Musabaa Salama area (Cretaceous of Egypt)

Where: Sinai, Egypt (29.1° N, 33.3° E: paleocoordinates 8.2° N, 27.6° E)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Raha Formation, Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified shale and limestone

• Interbedded limestone, shale, sandstone.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Collection methods: bulk, surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: A. S. Kassab and M. M. Ismael. 1994. Upper Cretaceous invertebrate fossils from the area northeast of Abu Zuneima, Sinai, Egypt. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 191(2):221-249 [C. Marshall/S. Low/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 3757: authorized by Charles Marshall, entered by Sofy Low on 09.08.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Tylostomatidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae
"Strombus incertus" = Harpagodes nodosus
"Strombus incertus" = Harpagodes nodosus Sowerby 1823 snail
 Pleurotomarioidea - Pleurotomariidae
Conotomaria sp. Cox 1959 snail
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Ceratostreon flabellatum Goldfuss 1833 oyster
Ilymatogyra africana Lamarck 1801 oyster
 Pectinida - Neitheoidae
"Neithea aequicostata" = Neithea (Neithea) aequicostata
"Neithea aequicostata" = Neithea (Neithea) aequicostata Lamarck 1819 scallop
 Cardiida - Glossidae
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Venus reynesi venus clam
Dosinia delettrei venus clam
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
Echinoidea
 Irregularia - Archiaciidae
 Holectypoida - Holectypidae