East Themed, bed 17 (Cretaceous of Egypt)

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: Abu Qada Formation, Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; glauconitic, gray, green shale

• greyish-green, soft, highly fossiliferous, glauconitic shale with thin gypsum veinlets

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 140582: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 12.03.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Costagyra olisiponensis Sharpe 1850 oyster
 Pectinida - Neitheoidae
"Neithea coquandi" = Neithea (Neithea) coquandi
"Neithea coquandi" = Neithea (Neithea) coquandi Peron 1877 scallop
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Paraesa faba Sowerby 1827 venus clam
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Pholadomya pedernalis Roemer 1852 clam