Abu Qada Formation, Gebel Musabaa Salama area: Late/Upper Cenomanian - Early/Lower Turonian, Egypt
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Echinoidea
- Salenioida
- Saleniidae
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Salenia sp.
Gray 1835
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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Echinoidea
- Holectypoida
- Holectypidae
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Holectypus excisus
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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Echinoidea
- Spatangoida
- Micrasteridae
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Micraster corbovis
Forbes 1850
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3 specimens | |||||||||
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Micraster leskei
d'Orbigny 1855
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9 specimens | |||||||||
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Vascoceratidae
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Vascoceras obessum
(Taubenhaus 1920)
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9 specimens | |||||||||
| recombined as Paravascoceras obessum | ||||||||||
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Vascoceras proprium
(Reyment 1954)
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6 specimens | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Aporrhaidae
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Strombus incertus
(d'Orbigny 1842)
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2 specimens | |||||||||
| synonym of Harpagodes nodosus | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Mytilida
- Mytilidae
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Septifer samiri
(Abbass 1962)
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4 specimens | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Neitheidae
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Neithea aequicostata
(Lamarck 1819)
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4 specimens | |||||||||
| recombined as Neithea (Neithea) aequicostata | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Plicatulidae
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Plicatula reynesi
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6 specimens | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Gryphaeidae
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Exogyra olisiponensis
Sharpe 1850
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7 specimens | |||||||||
| recombined as Costagyra olisiponensis | ||||||||||
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Ilymatogyra africana
(Lamarck 1801)
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12 specimens | |||||||||
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Amphidonte obliquatum
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17 specimens | |||||||||
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Gyrostrea delettrei
(Coquand 1862)
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15 specimens | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Veneridae
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Venus reynesi
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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Dosinia delettrei
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6 specimens | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Pholadomyida
- Pholadomyidae
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Pholadomya vignesi
Lartet 1877
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6 specimens | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Thraciida
- Thraciidae
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Thracia seguenzai
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6 specimens | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Crassatellidae
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Crassatella incurva n. sp.
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15 specimens | |||||||||
| originally entered as "Crassatella incurva n. sp." | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Egypt | State/province: | Sinai |
| Coordinates: | 29.1° North, 33.3° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 9.2° North, 27.6° East | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| *Period: | Middle Cretaceous - Late/Upper Cretaceous | *Epoch: | Gallic |
| *International age/stage: | Late/Upper Cenomanian - Early/Lower Turonian | ||
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Cenomanian - Early/Lower Turonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 100.50000 - 89.80000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Abu Qada |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified "limestone" |
| Secondary lithology: | dolomite |
| Environment: | carbonate indet. |
| Geology comments: Also interbedded with dolomite and marl. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,cast |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | bulk,surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 3762 | ||
| Authorizer: | C. Marshall | Enterer: | S. Low |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 1999-08-09 16:25:33 | Last modified: | 2017-07-28 16:14:05 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1999-08-09 16:25:33 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 243. | A. S. Kassab and M. M. Ismael. 1994. Upper Cretaceous invertebrate fossils from the area northeast of Abu Zuneima, Sinai, Egypt. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 191(2):221-249 [C. Marshall/S. Low/M. Uhen] |