Maghara Area, Gebel Mistan, coral bed (Cretaceous of Egypt)
Where: Egypt (30.8° N, 33.6° E: paleocoordinates 7.0° N, 28.8° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Aptian (122.5 - 113.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; brown, yellow limestone
• 50 cm in thickness yellowish brown sandy limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: M. S. Mekawy. 2013. Taphonomy of Aptian-Albian Beds in the Gebel Mistan, Maghara Area, Northern Sinai, Egypt. Earth Science and Climatic Change 4(2) [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 151613: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 08.10.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Insecta | |
Pseudomesalia quadrilineata skin beetle | |
Gastropoda | |
Nerinea maghrensis snail
Nerinea mistanensis snail | |
Diastoma ornate snail | |
Pseudomesalia deserti Douvillé 1916 turret shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Nucula (Nucula) margitifera nut clam | |
Ceratostreon flabellatum Goldfuss 1833 oyster | |
Cucullaea (Idonearca) orientalis Douvillé 1916 clam | |
Pterotrigonia (Scabrotrigonia) scabra Lamarck 1819 clam | |
Trigonia (Trigonia) undulatocostata Blanckenhorn 1890 clam | |
Corbula magharensis clam | |
Echinoidea | |
Coenholectypus sp. Pomel 1883 sea urchin | |
Hemiaster sp. Agassiz and Desor 1847 heart urchin | |
Anthozoa | |
Trochosmilia cretacea stony coral
Montlivaltia sp. Lamouroux 1821 stony coral | |
Mixastraea sp. Roniewicz 1976 stony coral | |
Paracycloseris sp. Wells 1934 stony coral | |
Epistreptophyllum manzourensis stony coral
Epistreptophyllum sp. Milaschewitsch 1876 stony coral |