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; gray, yellow marl and 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 140608: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 12.03.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Cimolithium tenouklense snail | |
"Aporrhais" dutrugei Coquand 1862 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Arctica ? rostrata clam | |
Meretrix orientalis Douvillé 1916 venus clam | |
Rhynchostreon suborbiculatum Lamarck 1801 oyster
Ceratostreon flabellatum Goldfuss 1833 oyster | |
Modiolus aequalis Sowerby 1818 mussel | |
Nucula margaritifera Douvillé 1916 nut clam |