Gebel Areif El-Naqa, bed 15 (Cretaceous of Egypt)

Where: Egypt (30.4° N, 34.5° E: paleocoordinates 9.3° N, 28.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Carbonate Member (Halal Formation), Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; gray, yellow marl

• grayish-yellow soft marl, highly fossiliferous

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

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 140613: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 12.03.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
 Cerithioidea - Batillariidae
Pyrazus valeriae de Verneuil and de Loriere 1868 snail
 Architaenioglossa - Ampullinidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Tylostomatidae
Tylostoma pallaryi Peron and Fortau 1904 snail
Tylostoma cossoni Thomas and Peron 1889 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Colombellinidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae
"Aporrhais" dutrugei Coquand 1862 snail
""Strombus" incertus" = Harpagodes nodosus Sowerby 1823 snail
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Caricella ? sp. Conrad 1835 volute
 Sorbeoconcha - Procerithiidae
Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Pectinida - Plicatulidae
"Plicatula auressensis" = Plicatula (Plicatula) auressensis
"Plicatula auressensis" = Plicatula (Plicatula) auressensis Coquand 1862 scallop
 Ostreida - Malleidae
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Ilymatogyra africana Lamarck 1801 oyster
Rhynchostreon suborbiculatum Lamarck 1801 oyster
Exogyra conica Sowerby 1813 oyster
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
"Lucina fallax" = Mesomiltha fallax
"Lucina fallax" = Mesomiltha fallax Forbes 1846 clam
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Paraesa faba Sowerby 1827 venus clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Granocardium carolinum Amard et al. 1981 cockle
Granocardium productum Sowerby 1832 cockle
Protocardia hillana Sowerby 1813 cockle
 Carditida - Carditidae
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana sp. Link 1807 pointed nut clam
Echinoidea
 Euechinoidea - Pedinopsidae
 Euechinoidea - Pseudodiadematidae
Heterodiadema libycum Agassiz and Desor 1846 sea urchin
Tetragramma variolare Brongniart 1822 sea urchin
 Holectypoida - Holectypidae
Coenholectypus larteti Cotteau 1869 sea urchin
 Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
Hemiaster syriacus Conrad in Lynch 1852 heart urchin