Wadi Asal-Wadi Zug El Bohar, Egypt (Miocene to of Egypt)

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
 Cerithioidea - Potamididae
Potamides sp. Brongniart 1810 horn snail
Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Botula sp., Brachidontes sp., "Lithodomus sp." = Lithophaga
Botula sp. Mörch 1853 mussel
Brachidontes sp. Swainson 1840 mussel
"Lithodomus sp." = Lithophaga Röding 1798 mussel
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Diploastraeidae
"Thegioastraea multisepta" = Diploastrea multisepta
"Thegioastraea multisepta" = Diploastrea multisepta Sismonda 1871 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
"Stylophora regulata" = Seriatopora regulata
"Stylophora regulata" = Seriatopora regulata Chevalier 1961 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites cf. collegniana Michelin 1842 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Montastraeidae
"Montastrea mellahica" = Montastraea
"Montastrea mellahica" = Montastraea stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Favites neglecta Michelotti 1868 stony coral
var. minor
Tarbellastraea sp. Alloiteau 1950 stony coral
Tarbellastraea ellisiana Defrance 1826 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Mussidae
Aquitanophyllia grandistellae Chevalier 1961 stony coral