Pleistocene Reef, Red Sea,reef flat (Pleistocene of Saudi Arabia)
Also known as Reef 3805
Where: Saudi Arabia (27.7° N, 35.5° E: paleocoordinates 27.3° N, 35.1° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; bindstone and grainstone
• Below its cemented surfaces, corallinacean grainstones of framestones occur, the bindstones of the reef flat itself are formed by laminar growing red algea and foraminifera
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: W.-C. Dullo. 1990. Facies, Fossil Record, and Age of Pleistocene Reefs from the Red Sea (Saudi Arabia). Facies 22:1-46 [W. Kiessling/A. Girndt]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 80958: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Antje Girndt on 23.05.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Foraminifera | |
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Anthozoa | |
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Echinopora gemmacea, Goniastrea pectinata, Goniastrea retiformis, "Favia stelligera" = Goniastrea stelligera, Favites abdita, Favites flexuosa, Favites complanata, "Favia cf. laxa" = Dipsastraea laxa, "Favia pallida" = Dipsastraea pallida, "Favia favus" = Dipsastraea favus
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Gastropoda | |
Vermetus maximus Sowerby 1825 worm shell |