Where: Egypt (25.3° N, 34.8° E: paleocoordinates 25.1° N, 34.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Gabir Formation, Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
• thickness of Gabir Formation: 80-90 m (Wadi Shagra and Wadi Wizr), 45 m (Wadi Samadai); Crassostrea gingensis-Crassostrea crassissima zone
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; sandstone and limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: M. Kora and Z. Abdel-Fattah. 2000. Pliocene and Plio-Pleistocene macrofauna from the Red Sea coastal plain (Egypt): biostratigraphy and biogeography. Geologica et Palaeontologica 34:219-235 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 96758: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 30.06.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Turbinaria mesenterina Lamarck 1816 stony coral | |
Plesiastrea versipora Lamarck 1816 stony coral | |
Bivalvia | |
"Lopha (Lopha) virleti" = Hyotissa virleti
"Lopha (Lopha) virleti" = Hyotissa virleti Deshayes 1832 oyster | |
"Saccostrea cucullata" = Saccostrea cuccullata, "Ostrea (Ostrea) edulis" = Ostrea edulis, Crassostrea crassissima, Crassostrea gingensis
"Saccostrea cucullata" = Saccostrea cuccullata Born 1778 oyster
"Ostrea (Ostrea) edulis" = Ostrea edulis Linnaeus 1758 oyster
Crassostrea crassissima oyster
Crassostrea gingensis oyster | |
"Chlamys senatoria" = Mimachlamys senatoria
"Chlamys senatoria" = Mimachlamys senatoria Gmelin 1791 scallop | |
Tellina lacunosa tellin clam | |
Tapes cf. virgineus, "Tapes (Callistotapes) sallomcensis" = Paphia (Callistotapes)
Tapes cf. virgineus venus clam
"Tapes (Callistotapes) sallomcensis" = Paphia (Callistotapes) venus clam | |
Diplodonta subrotundata Issel 1869 clam | |
Echinoidea | |
Brissus carinatus heart urchin |