Where: Sinai, Egypt (30.9° N, 33.7° E: paleocoordinates 7.4° N, 28.3° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Rizan Aneiza Formation, Early/Lower Albian (112.0 - 109.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Primary reference: T. Steuber and M. Bachmann. 2002. Upper Aptian-Albian rudist bivalves from northern Sinai, Egypt. Palaeontology 45(4):725-749 [W. Kiessling/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 50266: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 11.05.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Eoradiolites plicatus Conrad 1852 rudist
Eoradiolites murgensis Torre 1965 rudist
? Agriopleura darderi rudist | |
Foraminifera | |