Where: Sinai, Egypt (30.8° N, 33.5° E: paleocoordinates 7.0° N, 28.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Rizan Aneiza Formation, Late/Upper Aptian (122.5 - 113.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments

Size class: microfossils

Primary reference: T. Steuber and M. Bachmann. 2002. Upper Aptian-Albian rudist bivalves from northern Sinai, Egypt. Palaeontology 45(4):725-749 [W. Kiessling/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 50270: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 11.05.2005, edited by Mihaela Krause

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