Zug el-Bahar section, sample 68 (Pleistocene of Egypt)

Where: Egypt (25.8° N, 34.4° E: paleocoordinates 25.8° N, 34.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; calcareous sandstone

• limegrit

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: F. J. Souaya. 1963. Micropaleontology of four sections south of Qoseir, Egypt. Micropaleontology 9(3):233-266 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 147645: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 10.07.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Florideophyceae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Lithophyllum prelichenoides Lemoine 1917
common specimens
Lithophyllum ghorabi Souaya 1963
uncommon specimens
Dermatolithon papillosum
uncommon specimens
Amphiroa toddae
very rare specimens
Amphiroa lemoineae
very rare specimens
Amphiroa droogeri
very rare specimens
Amphiroa prefragilissima Johnson 1964
abundant specimens
 Hapalidiales - Corallinophycidae
"Lithothamnium magnum" = Lithothamnion, Mesophyllum barkoukyi
"Lithothamnium magnum" = Lithothamnion
very rare specimens
Mesophyllum barkoukyi
uncommon specimens