Also known as Reef 3396
Where: Egypt (27.6° N, 33.4° E: paleocoordinates 26.9° N, 32.4° E)
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Rudeis Formation, Langhian to Langhian (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)
• Langhian to lower Serravallian
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified framestone and lithified packstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: C. Perrin, J.-C. Plaziat, and B. R. Rosen. 1998. Miocene coral reefs and reef corals of the south-western Gulf of Suez and north-western Red Sea: distribution, diversity and regional environmental controls. Sedimentation and tectonics of rift basins: Red Sea - Gulf of Aden 296-319 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 50903: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 24.05.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Lithodomus sp." = Lithophaga
"Lithodomus sp." = Lithophaga Röding 1798 mussel | |
Anthozoa | |
Tarbellastraea sp. Alloiteau 1950 stony coral
Favites neglecta Michelotti 1868 stony coral
Caulastrea sp. Dana 1846 stony coral | |
Favia sp. Oken 1815 stony coral | |
Aquitanophyllia sp. stony coral
Mussismilia sp. Ortmann 1890 stony coral
Lithophyllia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1857 stony coral | |
Pavona sp. Lamarck 1801 stony coral | |
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral | |
Acanthastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
Stylophora sp. Schweigger 1819 stony coral | |
"Montastrea mellahica" = Montastraea
"Montastrea mellahica" = Montastraea stony coral | |
Balanophyllia sp. Wood 1844 stony coral |