Okheider Section, Suez: Burdigalian, Egypt
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Leptastreidae
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Leptastrea sp.
Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Acroporidae
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Acropora cf. lavandulina
(Michelin 1840)
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Agathiphylliidae
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Agathiphyllia sp.
Reuss 1864
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Montastraeidae
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Montastrea cf. schweinfurthi
(Pratz 1883)
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| frequent | ||||||||||
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Montastrea tchihatcheffi
(Chevalier 1961)
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| frequent Montastraea tchihatcheffi | ||||||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Poritidae
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Goniopora sp.
Blainville 1830
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| frequent | ||||||||||
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Porites sp.
Link 1807
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| frequent | ||||||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Merulinidae
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Tarbellastraea bragai
Stemann and Budd 1996
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| frequent | ||||||||||
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Tarbellastraea reussiana
(Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850)
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| abundant | ||||||||||
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Favites sp.
Link 1807
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| frequent | ||||||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Faviidae
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Favia sp.
Oken 1815
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Favia corollaris
Reuss 1871
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Solenastrea schafferi
(Kühn 1926)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Diploastraeidae
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Diploastrea sp.
Matthai 1914
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Diploastrea cf. heliopora
(Lamarck 1816)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Egypt |
| Coordinates: | 29.7° North, 32.2° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 28.6° North, 31.0° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| Stage: | Burdigalian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 |
| Key time interval: | Burdigalian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 20.44000 - 15.98000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "limestone" |
| Environment: | reef, buildup or bioherm |
| Geology comments: In the upper part of the Okheider section a small patch reef is exposed at an isolated hill. It rests conformably on top of sandy limestones [...] the thickness of the patch reef reaches maximally 1.5 m. The patch reef is topped by calcareous sandstones [...] | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | NHMW |
Metadata
| Database number: | 79599 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | A. Girndt |
| Modifier: | M. Krause | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2008-03-14 06:36:47 | Last modified: | 2015-01-09 06:40:44 |
| Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2010-03-14 06:36:47 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 26713. | F. Schuster. 2002. Early Miocene corals and associated sediments of the northwestern Gulf of Suez,Egypt. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 239:57-81 [W. Kiessling/A. Girndt/U. Merkel] |
Secondary references:
| 53990 | F. Schuster. 2000. Oligocene and Miocene examples of Acropora-dominated palaeoenvironments: Mesohellenic Basin (NW Greece) and northern Gulf of Suez (Egypt). Proceedings 9th International Coral Reef Symposium, Bali, Indonesia 23-27 1 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Uhen] |