Where: Egypt (28.7° N, 33.2° E: paleocoordinates 7.8° N, 27.5° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Neolobites vibrayeanus ammonoid zone, Raha Formation, Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified shale and lithified mixed carbonate-siliciclastic
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression, original aragonite, original calcite
Collection methods: Description of collected corals, coralline sponges, and bryozoans is outside the scope of the study.
Primary reference: G. M. El Qot. 2006. Late Cretaceous macrofossils from Sinai, Egypt. Beringeria 36:3-163 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 114795: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 24.08.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Heterodiadema buhayensis sea urchin | |
"Hemiaster (Mecaster) batnensis" = Mecaster batnensis
"Hemiaster (Mecaster) batnensis" = Mecaster batnensis Coquand 1862 heart urchin | |
Gastropoda | |
Pyrazus (Pyrazus) valeriae de Verneuil and de Loriere 1868 snail | |
Pterodonta deffisi snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Nucula (Nucula) margaritifera Douvillé 1916 nut clam | |
Pterotrigonia (Scabrotrigonia) scabra Lamarck 1819 clam | |
Maghrebella deserti clam | |
Sphaera corrugata, "Lucina fallax" = Mesomiltha fallax
Sphaera corrugata Sowerby 1822 clam
"Lucina fallax" = Mesomiltha fallax Forbes 1846 clam | |
Tenea delettrei Coquand 1862 clam
Arctica cordata clam | |
Paraesa faba Sowerby 1827 venus clam | |
Protocardia hillana Sowerby 1813 cockle
Granocardium productum Sowerby 1832 cockle | |
Aenona cenomanensis Abbass 1962 tellin clam | |
Curvostrea rouvillei, Ceratostreon flabellatum, Costagyra olisiponensis, Ilymatogyra africana, Rhynchostreon suborbiculatum
Curvostrea rouvillei Coquand 1862 oyster
Ceratostreon flabellatum Goldfuss 1833 oyster
Costagyra olisiponensis Sharpe 1850 oyster
Ilymatogyra africana Lamarck 1801 oyster
Rhynchostreon suborbiculatum Lamarck 1801 oyster | |
Ambigostrea pseudovillei Malchus 1990 oyster | |
"Plicatula auressensis" = Plicatula (Plicatula) auressensis, "Plicatula ferryi" = Plicatula (Plicatula) ferryi, "Plicatula fourneli" = Plicatula (Plicatula) fourneli
"Plicatula auressensis" = Plicatula (Plicatula) auressensis Coquand 1862 scallop
"Plicatula ferryi" = Plicatula (Plicatula) ferryi Coquand 1862 scallop
"Plicatula fourneli" = Plicatula (Plicatula) fourneli Coquand 1862 scallop | |
Neithea (Neithea) dutrugei Dutrugei 1862 scallop | |
Cephalopoda | |
Angulithes mermeti Montfort 1802 nautiloid | |
Vascoceras cf. durandi Thomas and Peron 1889 ammonite | |
Neolobites vibrayeanus d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite |