Where: Egypt (29.6° N, 34.4° E: paleocoordinates 8.6° N, 28.2° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Galala Formation, Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; gray, yellow floatstone
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 140579: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 12.03.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Harpagodes heberti snail
""Strombus" incertus" = Harpagodes nodosus Sowerby 1823 snail
"Aporrhais" dutrugei Coquand 1862 snail | |
Pterodonta deffisi snail
Tylostoma cossoni Thomas and Peron 1889 snail | |
Pchelinsevia coquandiana top snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Praeradiolites biskraensis rudist | |
Ilymatogyra africana Lamarck 1801 oyster |