Where: Egypt (29.6° N, 34.4° E: paleocoordinates 10.5° N, 28.3° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Abu Qada Formation, Early/Lower Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; white, yellow limestone and shale
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 140587: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 12.03.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Thomasites rollandi Peron 1890 ammonite | |
Gastropoda | |
Tylostoma globosum Sharpe 1849 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Cucullaea trigona Seguenza 1882 clam | |
"Plicatula auressensis" = Plicatula (Plicatula) auressensis
"Plicatula auressensis" = Plicatula (Plicatula) auressensis Coquand 1862 scallop | |
Pseudolimea itieriana Pictet and Roux 1852 file clam | |
Phelopteria gravida Coquand 1862 pearl oyster | |
Gyrostrea cf. anubis Malchus 1990 oyster
Curvostrea rouvillei Coquand 1862 oyster | |
Pholadomya pedernalis Roemer 1852 clam | |
Meretrix desvauxi Coquand 1862 venus clam | |
Echinoidea | |
"Hemiaster fourneli" = Mecaster fourneli
"Hemiaster fourneli" = Mecaster fourneli Agassiz and Dessor 1847 heart urchin |