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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Foraminifera | |
Florideophyceae | |
Sporolithon sp. Rothpletz 1891 | |
Gastropoda | |
Actaeonella delgadoi Choffat 1901 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Ichthyosarcolites sp." = Icthyosarcolites
"Ichthyosarcolites sp." = Icthyosarcolites Desmarest 1817 rudist | |
? Agriopleura darderi rudist
Eoradiolites plicatus Conrad 1852 rudist | |
Sellaea sp. Stefano 1889 rudist |