Gebel Areif El-Naqa, bed 9 (Cretaceous of Egypt)

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

• yellowish-gray, moderately hard, fossiliferous marl

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 140609: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 12.03.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
Hemiaster gabrielis heart urchin
 Holectypoida - Holectypidae
Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Acteonidae
Acteon ? sp. Montfort 1810 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Colombellinidae
Columbellina fusiformis Douvillé 1916 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Tylostomatidae
 Architaenioglossa - Ampullinidae
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
Arctica ? picteti Coquand 1862 clam
 Cardiida - Glossidae
Glossus aquilinus Coquand 1862 clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Granocardium productum Sowerby 1832 cockle
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Curvostrea rouvillei Coquand 1862 oyster
Ceratostreon flabellatum Goldfuss 1833 oyster
 Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinna sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster