Wadi Gasus (Pleistocene to of Egypt)

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
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
"Montastrea curta" = Astrea curta, "Favia laxa" = Dipsastraea laxa
"Montastrea curta" = Astrea curta Dana 1846 stony coral
"Favia laxa" = Dipsastraea laxa Klunzinger 1879 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites nodifera Klunzinger 1879 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Fungiidae
"Fungia (Pleuractis) paumotensis" = Pleuractis paumotensis Stutchbury 1833 stony coral
Fungia sp. Lamarck 1801 stony coral
Fungia (Pleuractis) moluccensis van der Horst 1919 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Euphylliidae
Galaxea sp. Oken 1815 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora robusta Dana 1846 stony coral
Acropora hemprichii Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral