Wadi Quseib, Bed 45 (Cretaceous of Egypt)

Where: Egypt (29.3° N, 34.7° E: paleocoordinates 10.1° N, 28.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Abu Qada Formation, Early/Lower Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; rudstone and floatstone

• varicoloured, fossiliferous, gypsiferous shale with dolomitic Chondrodonta/rudist rudstone to floatstone interbeds in the lower part

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 140243: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 06.03.2013

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Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Procerithiidae
Cimolithium tenouklense
 Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae
Aporrhais "sp.2"
Aporrhais "sp.2" da Costa 1778 snail
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Plicatulidae
"Plicatula ferryi" = Plicatula (Plicatula) ferryi
"Plicatula ferryi" = Plicatula (Plicatula) ferryi Coquand 1862 scallop