Where: Egypt (30.1° N, 31.1° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 14.0° N, 37.2° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Rotalia- Trochammina foram zone, Abu Roash Formation, Late/Upper Cenomanian (100.5 - 93.9 Ma)

• time interval uncertain, but :'Based on the determined macrofossil and/or microfossil assemblages and the position of the section in these deposits, the ?late Cenomanian may be assigned to this unit' and 'Most taxa of this fauna are typical Cenomanian index fossils and some of them (particularly Amphidonte (Ceratostreon) flabellata and Ilymatogyra (Afrogyra) africana) have never been reported to extend to the Turonian.'

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; marl and limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: M. M. El-Hedeny. 2007. New taxonomic and biostratigraphic data on the Upper Cenomanian – Turonian Radiolitidae (Bivalvia: Hippuritoidea) of Abu Roash, Western Desert, Egypt. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 244(1):79-98 [M. Aberhan/T. Schossleitner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 140952: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 19.03.2013

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