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
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Taxonomic list
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Anthozoa | |
Acropora cf. lavandulina Michelin 1840 stony coral | |
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Favia sp. Oken 1815 stony coral
Favia corollaris Reuss 1871 stony coral
Solenastrea schafferi Kühn 1926 stony coral | |
Diploastrea sp. Matthai 1914 stony coral
Diploastrea cf. heliopora Lamarck 1816 stony coral | |
Agathiphyllia sp. Reuss 1864 stony coral | |
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Leptastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral |