beds 27-31, Wadi Imshash Rashed, Gebel Maghara (Jurassic of Egypt)

Where: Egypt (30.7° N, 33.4° E: paleocoordinates 9.7° N, 28.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 152.1 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, white limestone and lithified, gray shale

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: bulk, chemical, mechanical, sieve,

Primary reference: R. Said and M. G. Barakat. 1958. Jurassic Microfossils from Gebel Maghara, Sinai, Egypt. Micropaleontology 4(3):231-272 [L. Villier/L. Villier]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 99488: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 13.11.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Holothuroidea
 Dendrochirotida - Calclamnidae
Eocaudina sp. Martin 1952 sea cucumber
  - Stichopitidae
Stichopites mortenseni Deflandre-Rigaud 1952 sea cucumber
Foraminifera
 Astrorhizacea - Rhabdamminidae
 Astrorhizacea - Bathysiphonidae
Bathysiphon sp. Sars 1872
 Textulariina - Hyperamminidae
Hyperammina sp. Brady 1879
 Hormosinacea - Hormosinidae
 Ammodiscoidea - Ammodiscidae
 Trochamminacea - Trochamminidae
  -
"Marginulina cf. oolithica" = Cristellaria (Marginulina), "Marginulina simplex" = Cristellaria (Marginulina), "Lenticulina subalata" = Cristellaria subalata
"Marginulina cf. oolithica" = Cristellaria (Marginulina)
"Marginulina simplex" = Cristellaria (Marginulina)
"Lenticulina subalata" = Cristellaria subalata Reuss 1854
 Rotaliina - Bolivinidae
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Hemigordiopsidae
Foraminifera
 Spirillinina - Spirillinidae
Conicospirillina planorbis, "Conicospirillina cf. trochoides" = Spirillina trochoides
"Conicospirillina cf. trochoides" = Spirillina trochoides Berthelin 1879
 Involutinina - Involutinidae
  -
Annulina cf. metensis Terquem 1862
 Lituolida - Rzehakinidae
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
 Lituolida - Haplophragmoididae
Haplophragmoides sp. Cushman 1910
 Fusulinina - Nodosinellidae
  -
Nodosariata
 Vaginulinida - Vaginulinidae
 Vaginulinida - Lagenidae
 Polymorphinida - Polymorphinidae
 Nodosariida - Glandulonodosariidae
 Nodosariida - Nodosariidae
 Robertinida - Epistominidae