Where: Egypt (26.2° N, 34.2° E: paleocoordinates 26.2° N, 34.2° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Pleistocene to Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.0 Ma)
• 2 Middle Pleistocene and 1 Late Pleistocene unit at the Red Sea coast, not stated in text from which unit corals were collected
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: A. S. El-Sorogy. 2008. Contributions to the Pleistocene coral reefs of the Red Sea coast, Egypt. Arab Gulf Journal of Scientific Research 26:63-85 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 120206: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 08.11.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Anthozoa | |
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Blastomussa merleti Wells 1961 stony coral | |
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Echinopora fruticulosa Klunzinger 1879 stony coral | |
"Acropora tutuilensis" = Acropora abrotanoides, Acropora intermedia
"Acropora tutuilensis" = Acropora abrotanoides Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Acropora intermedia Brook 1891 stony coral | |
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Cycloseris erosa Doederlein 1901 stony coral | |
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Goniopora minor Crossland 1952 stony coral | |