Where: Egypt (29.3° N, 34.7° E: paleocoordinates 8.2° N, 28.4° E)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Middle siliciclastic/carbonate Member (Galala Formation), Middle Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; gray, green, yellow floatstone and rudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: bulk,
Primary reference: W. S. Ayoub-Hannaa. 2011. Taxonomy and palaeoecology of the Cenomanian-Turonian macroinvertebrates from eastern Sinai, Egypt (part A). 1-418 [M. Aberhan/T. Schossleitner/T. Schossleitner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 140233: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 05.03.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Coenholectypus larteti Cotteau 1869 sea urchin | |
Gastropoda | |
Pchelinsevia coquandiana top snail | |
Pyrazus valeriae de Verneuil and de Loriere 1868 snail | |
Ampullina ? abeihensis snail | |
Tylostoma cossoni Thomas and Peron 1889 snail | |
Campanile ganesha snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Neithea sp. Drouet 1824 scallop | |
Granocardium desvauxi cockle | |
Toucasia ? matheroni rudist | |
"Ichthyosarcolites sp." = Icthyosarcolites
"Ichthyosarcolites sp." = Icthyosarcolites Desmarest 1817 rudist | |
Praeradiolites sp. Douvillé 1902 rudist | |
Anthozoa | |
Tortoflabellum sp. Squires 1958 stony coral |