Sharm el Bahari-Sharm el Qibli, Egypt (Miocene to of Egypt)

Also known as Reef 1982

Where: Egypt (25.5° N, 34.7° E: paleocoordinates 24.7° N, 33.7° 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 50926: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 24.05.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
"Stylophora regulata" = Seriatopora regulata
"Stylophora regulata" = Seriatopora regulata Chevalier 1961 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites collegniana Michelin 1842 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Montastraeidae
"Montastrea alloiteaui" = Montastraea
"Montastrea alloiteaui" = Montastraea stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
? Caulastrea sp. Dana 1846 stony coral
Tarbellastraea ellisiana Defrance 1826 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Mussidae
Lithophyllia michelotti Michelin 1841 stony coral
Mussismilia provincialis Matheron 1900 stony coral