Wata Formation, Gebel Musabaa Salam area (Cretaceous of Egypt)

Where: Sinai, Egypt (29.1° N, 33.3° E: paleocoordinates 10.2° N, 27.7° E)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wata Formation, Early/Lower Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified carbonate and sandstone

• Also interbedded with dolomite.

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 3765: authorized by Charles Marshall, entered by Sofy Low on 09.08.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Vascoceratidae
"Vascoceras obessum" = Paravascoceras obessum
"Vascoceras obessum" = Paravascoceras obessum Taubenhaus 1920 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Pseudotissotiidae
"Choffaticeras segne" = Choffaticeras (Choffaticeras) segne
"Choffaticeras segne" = Choffaticeras (Choffaticeras) segne Solger 1903 ammonite
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Plicatulidae
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Pholadomya vignesi Lartet 1877 clam
 Thraciida - Thraciidae
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Venus reynesi venus clam
 Carditida - Crassatellidae
Crassatella incurva n. sp. clam
originally entered as "Crassatella incurva n. sp."
Echinoidea
 Holectypoida - Holectypidae
Holectypus sp. sea urchin
 Spatangoida - Micrasteridae
Micraster corbovis Forbes 1850 heart urchin
 Salenioida - Saleniidae
Salenia sp. Gray 1835 sea urchin