Halal Fm., Gebel Raghawi section (Cretaceous of Egypt)

Where: Sinai, Egypt (30.8° N, 33.5° E: paleocoordinates 9.9° N, 27.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Halal Formation, Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments

• The rudist-bearing section was formed during a period of relative tectonic quiescence on an extended carbonate shelf.

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: Y. Salama, M. Grammer, S. Saber, S. El-Shazly, and G. Abdel-Gawad. 2018. Sequence Stratigraphy and Rudist Facies Development of the Upper Barremian-Lower Cenomanian Platform, Northern Sinai, Egypt. Acta geologica sinica 92(1):286-310 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 193562: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 29.05.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Orbitolinacea - Orbitolinidae
Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Eoradiolites liratus Conrad 1852 rudist