Where: Sinai, Egypt (30.8° N, 33.5° E: paleocoordinates 8.5° N, 27.6° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Halal Formation, Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 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 50273: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 11.05.2005, edited by Mihaela Krause
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Knemiceras sp. Böhm 1898 ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
Chondrodonta sp. Stanton 1901 scallop | |
"Ichthyosarcolites sp." = Icthyosarcolites
"Ichthyosarcolites sp." = Icthyosarcolites Desmarest 1817 rudist | |
Archaeoradiolites sp. Fenerci-Masse et al. 2006 rudist
Agriopleura cf. marticensis rudist
Eoradiolites liratus Conrad 1852 rudist | |
Sellaea sp. Stefano 1889 rudist
Neocaprina sp. Plenicar 1961 rudist
Neocaprina raghawiensis n. sp. Steuber and Bachmann 2002 rudist | |
? Mathesia darderi rudist | |
Florideophyceae | |
Rhodophyceae | |
Permocalculus sp. Elliott 1955 | |
Ulvophyceae | |
Halimeda sp. Lamouroux 1812
Boueina hochstetteri Toula 1883 | |
Arabicodium sp. Elliott 1957 | |
Foraminifera | |