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
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 | |
"Vascoceras obessum" = Paravascoceras obessum
"Vascoceras obessum" = Paravascoceras obessum Taubenhaus 1920 ammonite | |
"Choffaticeras segne" = Choffaticeras (Choffaticeras) segne
"Choffaticeras segne" = Choffaticeras (Choffaticeras) segne Solger 1903 ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
Plicatula reynesi scallop | |
Pholadomya vignesi Lartet 1877 clam | |
Thracia seguenzai clam | |
Venus reynesi venus clam | |
Crassatella incurva n. sp.
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Echinoidea | |
Holectypus sp. sea urchin | |
Micraster corbovis Forbes 1850 heart urchin | |
Salenia sp. Gray 1835 sea urchin |