Also known as "Old Reef Limestone", Zabargad Island

Where: Egypt (23.6° N, 36.2° E: paleocoordinates 23.5° N, 36.1° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: "Old Reef Limestone" Formation, Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• Consists of a 20-40 m (66-131 ft) thick fossiliferous biocalcarenites and reef limestones which are recrystalized and tectonized to various degrees. They occur up to 80 m above sea level. They change from black lagonal, calcareous sands near the base, into fossiliferous reef flat and reef edge limestones near the top. They directly overlie peridotites of the igneous basement. Collection is from limestones

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified, shelly/skeletal, calcareous grainstone and limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: No detailed collection data reported.

Primary reference: E. Bonatti, R. Clocchiatti, P. Colantoni, R. Gelmini, G. Marinelli, G. Ottonello, R. Santacroce, M. Taviani, A.A. Abdel-Meguid, H.S. Assaf, and M.A. El Tahir. 1983. Zabargad (St. John's) Island: an uplifted fragment of sub-Red Sea lithosphere. Journal of the Geological Society 140(4):677-690 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/J. Millet]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 42121: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 23.07.2004, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling

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