Where: Egypt (30.1° N, 31.1° E: paleocoordinates 11.1° N, 25.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Abu Roash Formation, Turonian (93.9 - 89.8 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; limestone and shale
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Collection methods: bulk,
Primary reference: M. M. El-Hedeny. 2007. New taxonomic and biostratigraphic data on the Upper Cenomanian – Turonian Radiolitidae (Bivalvia: Hippuritoidea) of Abu Roash, Western Desert, Egypt. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 244(1):79-98 [M. Aberhan/T. Schossleitner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 140954: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 19.03.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Echinobrissus lefebvrei Fourtau 1914 sea urchin | |
Linthia roashensis heart urchin | |
Bivalvia | |
Radiolites lewyi rudist
Radiolites sauvagesi d'Hombres-Firmas 1838 rudist
Durania gaensis Dacque 1903 rudist
Bournonia fourtaui rudist | |
Foraminifera | |
Globothalamea | |
Nodosariata | |
Foraminifera | |
Peneroplis sp. Montfort 1808 | |
Tubothalamea | |
Quinqueloculina sp. d'Orbigny 1826 | |
Foraminifera | |
Spiroplectammina biformis Parker and Jones 1876 |