Rizan Aneiza Fm., Gebel Raghawi section, northern Sinai (Cretaceous of Egypt)

Where: Sinai, Egypt (30.8° N, 33.5° E: paleocoordinates 7.8° N, 27.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Rizan Aneiza Formation, Middle Albian (109.0 - 105.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• The rudist-bearing section was formed during a period of relative tectonic quiescence on an extended carbonate shelf.

Size classes: macrofossils, 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 50272: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 11.05.2005, edited by Mihaela Krause

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Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Orbitolinacea - Orbitolinidae
Florideophyceae
 Sporolithales - Corallinophycidae
Sporolithon sp. Rothpletz 1891
Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Acteonellidae
Actaeonella delgadoi Choffat 1901 snail
Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Ichthyosarcolitidae
"Ichthyosarcolites sp." = Icthyosarcolites
"Ichthyosarcolites sp." = Icthyosarcolites Desmarest 1817 rudist
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Eoradiolites plicatus Conrad 1852 rudist
 Hippuritida - Caprinulidae
Sellaea sp. Stefano 1889 rudist