El Quseir: Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene, Egypt
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Merulinidae
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Cyphastrea microphthalma
(Lamarck 1816)
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Cyphastrea serailia
(Forskal 1775)
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Favites flexuosa
(Dana 1846)
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Favites chinensis
(Verrill 1866)
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3 individuals | |||||||||
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Erythrastrea flabellata
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Platygyra spp.
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Platygyra daedalea
(Ellis and Solander 1786)
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Platygyra lamellina
(Ehrenberg 1834)
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Echinopora hirsutissima
Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849
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Echinopora forskaliana
(Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850)
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Goniastrea retiformis
(Lamarck 1816)
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Dipsastraea sp.
de Blainville 1830
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Dipsastraea speciosa
(Dana 1846)
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Dipsastraea pallida
(Dana 1846)
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Geography
| Country: | Egypt | State/province: | Red Sea |
| Coordinates: | 26.1° North, 34.3° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 26.1° North, 34.3° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 0.77400 - 0.01170 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Samadai |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified "mixed carbonate-siliciclastic" |
| Lithology description: "reefal limestones" | |
| Environment: | reef, buildup or bioherm |
| Geology comments: "mixed carbonate–siliciclastic terraces" | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | peel or thin section,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 234196 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | A. Watson |
| Modifier: | A. Watson | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2024-03-22 05:18:56 | Last modified: | 2024-03-22 05:58:58 |
| Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2024-06-22 05:18:56 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 87939. | H. M. Khalil, M. S. Fathy, and S. M. Al Sawy. 2021. Quaternary corals (Scleractinia: Merulinidae) from the Egyptian and Saudi Arabian Red Sea Coast. Geological Journal 56(8):4150-4188 [W. Kiessling/A. Watson] |