Where: Egypt (26.6° N, 34.0° E: paleocoordinates 26.6° N, 34.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Pleistocene to Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.0 Ma)
• 2 Middle Pleistocene and 1 Late Pleistocene unit at the Red Sea coast, not stated in text from which unit corals were collected
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: A. S. El-Sorogy. 2008. Contributions to the Pleistocene coral reefs of the Red Sea coast, Egypt. Arab Gulf Journal of Scientific Research 26:63-85 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 120205: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 08.11.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
"Montastrea curta" = Astrea curta, "Favia laxa" = Dipsastraea laxa
"Montastrea curta" = Astrea curta Dana 1846 stony coral
"Favia laxa" = Dipsastraea laxa Klunzinger 1879 stony coral | |
Porites nodifera Klunzinger 1879 stony coral | |
"Fungia (Pleuractis) paumotensis" = Pleuractis paumotensis, Fungia sp., Fungia (Pleuractis) moluccensis
"Fungia (Pleuractis) paumotensis" = Pleuractis paumotensis Stutchbury 1833 stony coral
Fungia sp. Lamarck 1801 stony coral
Fungia (Pleuractis) moluccensis van der Horst 1919 stony coral | |
Galaxea sp. Oken 1815 stony coral | |
Acropora robusta Dana 1846 stony coral
Acropora hemprichii Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral |