East Themed, bed 22: Early/Lower Turonian, Egypt

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Pseudotissotiidae
Choffaticeras securiforme (Eck 1909)
20 specimens
synonym of Choffaticeras (Choffaticeras) segne
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Arcticidae
Tenea delletrei
8 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Pseudolimea itieriana (Pictet and Roux 1852)
7 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Plicatulidae
Plicatula auressensis Coquand 1862
63 specimens
recombined as Plicatula (Plicatula) auressensis
see common names

Geography
Country:Egypt
Coordinates: 29.6° North, 34.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:10.5° North, 28.3° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Turonian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 6
Key time interval:Early/Lower Turonian
Age range of interval:93.90000 - 89.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Abu Qada
Local section:East Themed Local bed:22
Local order:top to bottom
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:white,yellow "limestone"
Lithology description: yellowish-white, moderately hard, fossiliferous limestone
Environment:open shallow subtidal
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:140585
Authorizer:M. Aberhan Enterer:T. Schossleitner
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2013-03-12 21:18:36 Last modified:2017-08-04 17:49:05
Access level:the public Released:2013-03-12 21:18:36
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]