Where: Egypt (29.3° N, 34.7° E: paleocoordinates 8.2° N, 28.4° E)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Upper carbonate Member (Galala Formation), Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; dolomitic, gray, yellow rudstone
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 140242: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 06.03.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Anthozoa | |
|
Cladocora sp. Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral | |
| Echinoidea | |
|
Goniopygus menardi Desmarest in Defrance 1925 sea urchin | |
|
Micropedina olisiponensis Forbes in Sharpe 1850 sea urchin | |
|
Coenholectypus larteti Cotteau 1869 sea urchin | |
| Gastropoda | |
|
Neoptyxis olisiponensis snail | |
|
Campanile ganesha snail | |
|
"Aporrhais" dutrugei Coquand 1862 snail | |
|
Calliomphalus orientalis snail | |
| Bivalvia | |
|
Meretrix desvauxi Coquand 1862 venus clam
Paraesa faba Sowerby 1827 venus clam | |
|
Glossus aquilinus Coquand 1862 clam | |
|
Granocardium productum Sowerby 1832 cockle
Protocardia hillana Sowerby 1813 cockle | |
|
Radiolites sauvagesi d'Hombres-Firmas 1838 rudist | |
|
Pholadomya vignesi Lartet 1877 clam | |
|
Curvostrea rouvillei Coquand 1862 oyster
Costagyra olisiponensis Sharpe 1850 oyster | |
|
Rastellum carinatum Lamarck 1806 oyster | |
|
Nayadina gaudri oyster | |
|
Chondrodonta joannae scallop | |
"Plicatula auressensis" = Plicatula (Plicatula) auressensis
"Plicatula auressensis" = Plicatula (Plicatula) auressensis Coquand 1862 scallop | |
|
Neithea dutrugei Dutrugei 1862 scallop | |