Zug el-Bahar section, sample 34 (Miocene of Egypt)

Where: Egypt (25.8° N, 34.4° E: paleocoordinates 24.7° N, 33.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: "Neoalveolina" melo zone, Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; calcareous sandstone

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: F. J. Souaya. 1963. Micropaleontology of four sections south of Qoseir, Egypt. Micropaleontology 9(3):233-266 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 147628: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 10.07.2013

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Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Rotalioidea - Elphidiidae
? Elphidium striatopunctatum
very rare specimens