Okheider Section, Suez (Miocene of Egypt)

Where: Egypt (29.7° N, 32.2° E: paleocoordinates 28.6° N, 31.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone

• 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 [...]

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the NHMW

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 79599: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Antje Girndt on 14.03.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora cf. lavandulina Michelin 1840 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
frequent
Goniopora sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
frequent
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Favites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
frequent
Tarbellastraea reussiana Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 stony coral
abundant
Tarbellastraea bragai Stemann and Budd 1996 stony coral
frequent
 Scleractinia - Faviidae
Favia sp. Oken 1815 stony coral
Favia corollaris Reuss 1871 stony coral
Solenastrea schafferi Kühn 1926 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Diploastraeidae
Diploastrea sp. Matthai 1914 stony coral
Diploastrea cf. heliopora Lamarck 1816 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Agathiphylliidae
Agathiphyllia sp. Reuss 1864 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Montastraeidae
Montastrea tchihatcheffi Chevalier 1961 stony coral
frequent Montastraea tchihatcheffi
Montastrea cf. schweinfurthi Pratz 1883 stony coral
frequent
 Scleractinia - Leptastreidae
Leptastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral