East Themed, bed 26 (Cretaceous of Egypt)

Where: Egypt (29.6° N, 34.4° E: paleocoordinates 10.5° N, 28.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; gray, yellow marl and gray, yellow shale

• yellowish-grey, moderately hard shale/marl alternations which interfinger with thin gypsum layers. The marly beds are highly fossiliferous.

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 140588: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 12.03.2013

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Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Holectypoida - Holectypidae
 Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
Hemiaster heberti heart urchin
Hemiaster heberti turonensis
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Pseudotissotidae
Wrightoceras munieri Pervinquiére 1907 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Vascoceratidae
Neoptychites cephalotus Courtiller 1860 ammonite
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Colombellinidae
Columbellina fusiformis Douvillé 1916 snail
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
 Pectinida - Plicatulidae
"Plicatula ferryi" = Plicatula (Plicatula) ferryi
"Plicatula ferryi" = Plicatula (Plicatula) ferryi Coquand 1862 scallop
 Pectinida - Limidae
Pseudolimea itieriana Pictet and Roux 1852 file clam
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Gyrostrea cf. anubis Malchus 1990 oyster
Rhynchostreon suborbiculatum Lamarck 1801 oyster
Exogyra conica Sowerby 1813 oyster
Pycnodonte vesicularis Lamarck 1806 oyster
Pycnodonte vesicularis vesiculosa
 Ostreida - Pteriidae
Phelopteria gravida Coquand 1862 pearl oyster
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Paraesa faba Sowerby 1827 venus clam
Meretrix desvauxi Coquand 1862 venus clam
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Pholadomya pedernalis Roemer 1852 clam