Abu Qada Formation, Gebel Musabaa Salama area (Cretaceous to of Egypt)

Where: Sinai, Egypt (29.1° N, 33.3° E: paleocoordinates 9.2° N, 27.6° E)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Abu Qada Formation, Late/Upper Cenomanian to Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 89.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone and dolomite

• Also interbedded with dolomite and marl.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Collection methods: bulk, surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: A. S. Kassab and M. M. Ismael. 1994. Upper Cretaceous invertebrate fossils from the area northeast of Abu Zuneima, Sinai, Egypt. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 191(2):221-249 [C. Marshall/S. Low/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 3762: authorized by Charles Marshall, entered by Sofy Low on 09.08.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Holectypoida - Holectypidae
 Spatangoida - Micrasteridae
Micraster corbovis Forbes 1850 heart urchin
Micraster leskei d'Orbigny 1855 heart urchin
 Salenioida - Saleniidae
Salenia sp. Gray 1835 sea urchin
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae
"Strombus incertus" = Harpagodes nodosus
"Strombus incertus" = Harpagodes nodosus Sowerby 1823 snail
Bivalvia
 Carditida - Crassatellidae
Crassatella incurva n. sp. clam
originally entered as "Crassatella incurva n. sp."
 Thraciida - Thraciidae
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Pholadomya vignesi Lartet 1877 clam
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Venus reynesi venus clam
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Septifer samiri Abbass 1962 mussel
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Gyrostrea delettrei Coquand 1862 oyster
"Exogyra olisiponensis" = Costagyra olisiponensis Sharpe 1850 oyster
Ilymatogyra africana Lamarck 1801 oyster
 Pectinida - Plicatulidae
 Pectinida - Neitheoidae
"Neithea aequicostata" = Neithea (Neithea) aequicostata
"Neithea aequicostata" = Neithea (Neithea) aequicostata Lamarck 1819 scallop
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Vascoceratidae
Vascoceras proprium Reyment 1954 ammonite
"Vascoceras obessum" = Paravascoceras obessum Taubenhaus 1920 ammonite