Also known as Reef 3930

Where: Egypt (27.9° N, 33.5° E: paleocoordinates 27.9° N, 33.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• fossil beach level at 15 m; reef grew during the maximum of the last interglacial period, stage 5e, Eemian, 125,000 YBP

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified framestone and lithified bindstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: A. S. El-Sorogy. 2002. Paleontology and depositional environments of the Pleistocene coral reefs of the Gulf of Suez, Egypt. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 225(3):337-371 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 87873: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 27.03.2009

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