Wadi Quseib, Bed 97: Middle Turonian, Egypt

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea - Phymosomatidae
Phymosoma abbatei
6 specimens
Rachiosoma irregulare
3 specimens
Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
Hemiaster fourneli Agassiz and Dessor 1847
7 specimens
recombined as Mecaster fourneli
Hemiaster heberti
21 specimens
Hemiaster heberti turonensis
Gastropoda - Tylostomatidae
Tylostoma cossoni Thomas and Peron 1889
6 specimens
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Coilopoceratidae
Coilopoceras requienianum (Orbigny 1841)
6 specimens
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Gyrostrea cf. anubis Malchus 1990
10 specimens
Bivalvia - Arcida - Cucullaeidae
Cucullaea thevestenis
5 specimens
Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Pholadomya fabrina
3 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Paraesa faba (Sowerby 1827)
12 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Egypt
Coordinates: 29.3° North, 34.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:10.1° North, 28.5° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Turonian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 6
Key time interval:Middle Turonian
Age range of interval:93.90000 - 89.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Wata
Local section:Wadi Quseib Local bed:97
Local order:top to bottom
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandy "shale"
Lithology description: sandy, fossiliferous shale
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:140320
Authorizer:M. Aberhan Enterer:T. Schossleitner
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2013-03-07 18:58:42 Last modified:2017-08-04 17:24:46
Access level:the public Released:2013-03-07 18:58:42
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

45224. W. S. Ayoub-Hannaa. 2011. Taxonomy and palaeoecology of the Cenomanian-Turonian macroinvertebrates from eastern Sinai, Egypt (part A). 1-418 [M. Aberhan/T. Schossleitner/T. Schossleitner]