Gebel Areif El-Naqa, Halal Fm, Ceratostreon flabellatum/ Hemiaster gabrielis as.: Late/Upper Albian - Cenomanian, Egypt
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea
- Holectypoida
- Holectypidae
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Coenholectypus portentosus
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1 specimen | ||||||
Coenholectypus larteti
(Cotteau 1869)
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2 specimens | ||||||
Echinoidea
- Spatangoida
- Hemiasteridae
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Hemiaster (Hemiaster) syriacus
(Conrad in Lynch 1852)
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5 specimens | ||||||
Hemiaster (Hemiaster) gabrielis
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76 specimens | ||||||
Bivalvia
- Mytilida
- Mytilidae
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Modiolus (Modiolus) aequalis
(Sowerby 1818)
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3 specimens | ||||||
Inoperna flagellifera
(Forbes 1846)
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5 specimens | ||||||
Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Gryphaeidae
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Rhynchostreon suborbiculatum
(Lamarck 1801)
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19 specimens | ||||||
Ceratostreon flabellatum
(Goldfuss 1833)
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161 specimens | ||||||
Exogyra conica
(Sowerby 1813)
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4 specimens | ||||||
recombined as Amphidonte conica | |||||||
Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Pinnidae
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Pinna (Pinna) sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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1 specimen | ||||||
Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Neitheidae
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Neithea (Neithea) quinquecostata
(Sowerby 1814)
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1 specimen | ||||||
recombined as Neithea quinquecostata | |||||||
Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Carditidae
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Venericardia ? forgemoli
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2 specimens | ||||||
Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Cardiidae
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Granocardium (Granocardium) productum
(Sowerby 1832)
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1 specimen | ||||||
Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Arcticidae
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Tenea delettrei
(Coquand 1862)
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8 specimens | ||||||
Arctica ? rostrata
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1 specimen | ||||||
Arctica ? picteti
(Coquand 1862)
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3 specimens | ||||||
Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Veneridae
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Paraesa faba
(Sowerby 1827)
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5 specimens | ||||||
Meretrix orientalis
Douvillé 1916
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12 specimens | ||||||
Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Glossidae
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Glossus aquilinus
(Coquand 1862)
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2 specimens | ||||||
Bivalvia
- Hippuritida
- Radiolitidae
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Praeradiolites sp.
Douvillé 1902
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2 specimens | ||||||
Bivalvia
- Hippuritida
- Ichthyosarcolitidae
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Ichthyosarcolites sp.
Desmarest 1817
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3 specimens | ||||||
corrected as Icthyosarcolites | |||||||
Bivalvia
- Trigoniida
- Megatrigoniidae
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Pterotrigonia (Scabrotrigonia) scabra
(Lamarck 1819)
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7 specimens | ||||||
Bivalvia
- Nuculida
- Nuculidae
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Nucula (Nucula) margaritifera
Douvillé 1916
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2 specimens | ||||||
Gastropoda
- Opisthobranchia
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Globiconcha cf. rotundata
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2 specimens | ||||||
Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Acteonidae
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Acteon ? sp.
Montfort 1810
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3 specimens | ||||||
Gastropoda
- Procerithiidae
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Cimolithium tenouklense
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3 specimens | ||||||
Gastropoda
- Tylostomatidae
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Pterodonta deffisi
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2 specimens | ||||||
Tylostoma pallaryi
(Peron and Fortau 1904)
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4 specimens | ||||||
Tylostoma (Tylostoma) cossoni
Thomas and Peron 1889
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2 specimens | ||||||
Gastropoda
- Colombellinidae
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Columbellina (Columbellina) fusiformis
Douvillé 1916
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4 specimens | ||||||
Gastropoda
- Aporrhaidae
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Harpagodes heberti
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7 specimens | ||||||
Strombus incertus
(d'Orbigny 1842)
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5 specimens | ||||||
synonym of Harpagodes nodosus | |||||||
Aporrhais dutrugei
(Coquand 1862)
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11 specimens | ||||||
Gastropoda
- Ampullinidae
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Ampullina (Ampullina) cf. quaasi
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1 specimen | ||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Egypt |
Coordinates: | 30.4° North, 34.5° East (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 8.3° North, 28.3° East |
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous |
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Albian - Cenomanian |
Age range of interval: | 106.20000 - 93.90000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Halal |
Stratigraphic resolution: | formation |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | green marl |
Secondary lithology: | "limestone" |
Lithology description: green glauconitic marls and greyish-yellow marly limestones | |
Environment: | offshore |
Geology comments: Lower marly member of the Halal Formation of Gebel Areif El-Naqa, less commonly in hard, fossiliferous rudist rudstone of the middle siliciclastic/carbonate
member of the Cenomanian Galala Formation at Wadi Quseib. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,mold/impression |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 150737 | ||
Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | M. Krause |
Modifier: | M. Krause | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2013-09-13 22:02:55 | Last modified: | 2013-09-16 07:09:21 |
Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2013-12-13 22:02:55 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
48157. | W. Ayoub-Hannaa and F. T. Fürsich. 2012. Palaeoecology and environmental significance of benthic associations from the Cenomanian-Turonian of eastern Sinai, Egypt. Beringeria (42)93-138 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Krause] |