Wadi Feiran, Mukattab, horizon 4 (Cretaceous of Egypt)

Where: Egypt (28.8° N, 33.5° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 12.2° N, 38.4° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Vascoceras cauvini ammonoid zone, Abu Qada Formation, Late/Upper Cenomanian (100.5 - 93.9 Ma)

• planctic foraminiferal zone: Whiteinella archaeocretacea; Whiteinella brittonensis subzone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; mudstone and siltstone

• environment described as sublittoral

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: A. S. Kassab, and N. A. Obaidalla. 2001. Integrated biostratigraphy and inter-regional correlation of the Cenomanian–Turonian deposits of Wadi Feiran, Sinai, Egypt. Creatceous Research 22:105-114 [M. Aberhan/T. Schossleitner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 138417: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 17.01.2013

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Vascoceratidae
"Vascoceras garnai" = Vascoceras gamai, Vascoceras cauvini
"Vascoceras garnai" = Vascoceras gamai Choffat 1898 ammonite
Vascoceras cauvini Chudeau 1909 ammonite
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Ceratostreon flabellatum Goldfuss 1833 oyster
Ilymatogyra africana Lamarck 1801 oyster
"Exogyra olisiponensis" = Costagyra olisiponensis Sharpe 1850 oyster
Gyrostrea delettrei Coquand 1862 oyster
Foraminifera
 Globigerinaceae - Marginotruncanidae
Whiteinella brittonensis Loeblich and Tappan 1961
Whiteinella baltica Douglas and Rankin 1969
 Globigerinaceae - Heterohelicidae
"Heterohelix moremani" = Guembelina moremani
"Heterohelix moremani" = Guembelina moremani Cushman 1938
 Globigerinina - Hedbergellidae
 Globigerinina - Globotruncanidae
"Praeglobotruncana stephani" = Globotruncana stephani Gandolfi 1942
  - Guembelitriidae
 Globigerinoidea - Globigerinidae
"Hedbergella planispira" = Globigerina planispira
"Hedbergella planispira" = Globigerina planispira Tappan 1940