Where: Sinai, Egypt (28.9° N, 33.3° E: paleocoordinates 36.1° S, 33.6° E)
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: middle Member (Um Bogma Formation), Arundian to Arundian (346.7 - 340.0 Ma)
• 18 m thick unit
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; yellow, argillaceous, silty dolomite
Collection methods: peel or thin section,
Primary reference: M. Kora. 1989. Lower Carboniferous (Visean) fauna from Wadi Budra, west-central Sinai, Egypt. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatshefte 1989(9):523-538 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 5534: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 11.10.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| unclassified | |
| Anthozoa | |
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Bradyphyllum sp. Grabau 1928 horn coral | |
Zaphrentites sp., Amplexizaphrentis cf. enniskilleni, Amplexizaphrentis palmatus, Amplexizaphrentis sp.
Zaphrentites sp. Hudson 1941 horn coral
Amplexizaphrentis cf. enniskilleni horn coral
Amplexizaphrentis palmatus horn coral
Amplexizaphrentis sp. Vaughan 1906 horn coral | |
| Draffania | |
| Rhynchonellata | |
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| Foraminifera | |