Also known as Reef 681
Where: Egypt (26.0° N, 34.3° E: paleocoordinates 25.2° N, 33.4° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Rudeis Formation, Langhian to Langhian (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)
• Langhian to lower Serravallian. Also older?
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified framestone and lithified rudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: C. Perrin, J.-C. Plaziat, and B. R. Rosen. 1998. Miocene coral reefs and reef corals of the south-western Gulf of Suez and north-western Red Sea: distribution, diversity and regional environmental controls. Sedimentation and tectonics of rift basins: Red Sea - Gulf of Aden 296-319 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 50925: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 24.05.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Potamides sp. Brongniart 1810 horn snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Botula sp. Mörch 1853 mussel
Brachidontes sp. Swainson 1840 mussel
"Lithodomus sp." = Lithophaga Röding 1798 mussel | |
Anthozoa | |
"Thegioastraea multisepta" = Diploastrea multisepta
"Thegioastraea multisepta" = Diploastrea multisepta Sismonda 1871 stony coral | |
"Stylophora regulata" = Seriatopora regulata
"Stylophora regulata" = Seriatopora regulata Chevalier 1961 stony coral | |
Porites cf. collegniana Michelin 1842 stony coral | |
"Montastrea mellahica" = Montastraea
"Montastrea mellahica" = Montastraea stony coral | |
Tarbellastraea sp. Alloiteau 1950 stony coral
Tarbellastraea ellisiana Defrance 1826 stony coral | |
Aquitanophyllia grandistellae Chevalier 1961 stony coral |