El Hassana (Oligocene of Egypt)
Where: North Sinai, Egypt (30.9° N, 33.8° E: paleocoordinates 28.5° N, 31.1° E)
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When: Wadi Arish Formation, Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; massive packstone and grainstone
Size class: mesofossils
Primary reference: J. Kuss and M.A. Boukhary. 2008. A new upper Oligocene marine record from northern Sinai (Egypt) and its paleogeographic context. GeoArabia 13(1):59-84 [M. Clapham/K. Hassell]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 221607: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Keenan Hassell on 16.08.2021
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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Florideophyceae | |
Spongites sp. Kützing 1841 | |
Sporolithon sp. Rothpletz 1891 |