Where: Egypt (26.2° N, 34.3° E: paleocoordinates 26.1° N, 34.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)
• probably oxygen isotope stage 9, 330-290 ka
• 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: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 120130: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 08.11.2011, edited by Mihaela Krause
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Heterocentrotus trigonarius sea urchin | |
Bivalvia | |
"Tridacna squamosa" = Tridacna (Chametrachea) squamosa
"Tridacna squamosa" = Tridacna (Chametrachea) squamosa cockle | |
Anthozoa | |
Porites lutea Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 stony coral
Porites nodifera Klunzinger 1879 stony coral | |
Fungia fungites Linnaeus 1758 stony coral | |
Lobophyllia corymbosa Forskal 1775 stony coral | |
Goniastrea pectinata, "Favia pallida" = Dipsastraea pallida
Goniastrea pectinata Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral
"Favia pallida" = Dipsastraea pallida Dana 1846 stony coral |