Rizan Aneiza Fm., Gebel Raghawi section, northern Sinai: Middle Albian, Egypt

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Acteonellidae
Actaeonella delgadoi Choffat 1901
Salama et al. 2018
Bivalvia - Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Eoradiolites plicatus (Conrad 1852)
? Agriopleura darderi
Bivalvia - Hippuritida - Caprinulidae
Sellaea sp. Stefano 1889
Bivalvia - Hippuritida - Ichthyosarcolitidae
Ichthyosarcolites sp. Desmarest 1817
Florideophyceae - Sporolithales - Corallinophycidae
Sporolithon sp. (Rothpletz 1891)
Salama et al. 2018
Orbitolinidae
Orbitolina (Mesorbitolina) texana
see common names

Geography
Country:Egypt State/province:Sinai
Coordinates: 30.8° North, 33.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:7.8° North, 27.8° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Early Cretaceous
Stage: Albian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 4
Key time interval: Middle Albian
Age range of interval: 109.9 - 106.2 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Rizan Aneiza
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "mixed carbonate-siliciclastic"
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm Tectonic setting:passive margin
Geology comments: The rudist-bearing section was formed during a period of relative tectonic quiescence on an extended carbonate shelf.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:50272
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:S. Nurnberg, M. Krause
Modifier:S. Nurnberg Research group:marine invertebrate,micropaleontology
Created:2005-05-11 06:47:37 Last modified:2006-06-16 07:17:59
Access level:the public Released:2005-05-11 06:47:37
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
13496. T. Steuber and M. Bachmann. 2002. Upper Aptian-Albian rudist bivalves from northern Sinai, Egypt. Palaeontology 45(4):725-749 [W. Kiessling/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]

Secondary references:

65761 Y. Salama, M. Grammer, S. Saber, S. El-Shazly, and G. Abdel-Gawad. 2018. Sequence Stratigraphy and Rudist Facies Development of the Upper Barremian-Lower Cenomanian Platform, Northern Sinai, Egypt. Acta geologica sinica 92(1):286-310 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]