Where: Egypt (30.4° N, 34.5° E: paleocoordinates 7.9° N, 28.4° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Lower Marly Member (Halal Formation), Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; glauconitic, green, yellow shale and bioturbated, green, yellow limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression
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 140606: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 12.03.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Hemiaster gabrielis heart urchin | |
Gastropoda | |
Tylostoma pallaryi Peron and Fortau 1904 snail
Tylostoma cossoni Thomas and Peron 1889 snail
Pterodonta deffisi snail | |
"Aporrhais" dutrugei Coquand 1862 snail
Harpagodes hebertii snail
""Strombus" incertus" = Harpagodes nodosus Sowerby 1823 snail | |
Columbellina fusiformis Douvillé 1916 snail | |
Cimolithium tenouklense snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Nucula margaritifera Douvillé 1916 nut clam | |
Neithea quinquecostata Sowerby 1814 scallop | |
Ceratostreon flabellatum Goldfuss 1833 oyster
Rhynchostreon suborbiculatum Lamarck 1801 oyster
Exogyra conica Sowerby 1813 oyster | |
Modiolus aequalis Sowerby 1818 mussel
Inoperna flagellifera Forbes 1846 mussel | |
Pterotrigonia sabra clam | |
Glossus aquilinus Coquand 1862 clam | |
Paraesa faba Sowerby 1827 venus clam | |
Tenea delletrei clam | |
Protocardia sp. Beyrich 1845 cockle | |