Where: Egypt (28.8° N, 34.5° E: paleocoordinates 9.7° N, 28.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Choffaticeras segne total range zone ammonoid zone, Abu Qada Formation, Early/Lower Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; glauconitic shale and glauconitic, nodular, red limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: B. Gertsch, G. Keller, T. Adatte Berner, A. S. Kassab, A. A. A. Tantawy, A. M. El-Sabbagh, and D. Stueben. 2010. Cenomanian–Turonian transition in a shallow water sequence of the Sinai, Egypt. International Journal of Earth Sciences (Geologische Rundschau) 99:165-182 [M. Aberhan/T. Schossleitner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 140720: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 15.03.2013

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