Where: Egypt (29.4° N, 32.5° E: paleocoordinates 32.0° S, 30.5° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Aheimer Formation, Kasimovian (307.0 - 303.7 Ma)
• Age given as late Westphalian to Stephanian. Kasimovian age appears most likely
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original calcite
Collection methods: Focus on corals
Primary reference: M. Kora and Y. Mansour. 1991. Late Carboniferous solitary rugose corals from the western side of the Gulf of Suez, Egypt. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatshefte 1991(10):597-616 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 50124: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 09.05.2005
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