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
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 | |
Pterodonta altispira snail | |
"Strombus incertus" = Harpagodes nodosus
"Strombus incertus" = Harpagodes nodosus Sowerby 1823 snail | |
Conotomaria sp. Cox 1959 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Ceratostreon flabellatum Goldfuss 1833 oyster
Ilymatogyra africana Lamarck 1801 oyster | |
"Neithea aequicostata" = Neithea (Neithea) aequicostata
"Neithea aequicostata" = Neithea (Neithea) aequicostata Lamarck 1819 scallop | |
Glossus solimani clam | |
Venus reynesi venus clam
Dosinia delettrei venus clam | |
Arctica humei clam | |
Echinoidea | |
Archiacia pescamili sea urchin | |
Holectypus excisus sea urchin |