Gebel Areif El-Naqa, bed 1: Late/Upper Albian, Egypt
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia
- Nuculida
- Nuculidae
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Nucula margaritifera
Douvillé 1916
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1 specimen | ||||||
Bivalvia
- Mytilida
- Mytilidae
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Modiolus aequalis
(Sowerby 1818)
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3 specimens | ||||||
Inoperna flagellifera
(Forbes 1846)
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5 specimens | ||||||
Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Gryphaeidae
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Ceratostreon flabellatum
(Goldfuss 1833)
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60 specimens | ||||||
Rhynchostreon suborbiculatum
(Lamarck 1801)
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3 specimens | ||||||
Exogyra conica
(Sowerby 1813)
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1 specimen | ||||||
recombined as Amphidonte conica | |||||||
Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Neitheidae
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Neithea quinquecostata
(Sowerby 1814)
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1 specimen | ||||||
Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Carditidae
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Venericardia ? forgemoli
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4 specimens | ||||||
Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Cardiidae
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Protocardia sp.
(Beyrich 1845)
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1 specimen | ||||||
Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Arcticidae
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Tenea delletrei
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2 specimens | ||||||
Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Veneridae
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Paraesa faba
(Sowerby 1827)
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5 specimens | ||||||
Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Glossidae
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Glossus aquilinus
(Coquand 1862)
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1 specimen | ||||||
Bivalvia
- Trigoniida
- Megatrigoniidae
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Pterotrigonia sabra
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7 specimens | ||||||
Gastropoda
- Opisthobranchia
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Globiconcha cf. rotundata
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2 specimens | ||||||
Gastropoda
- Procerithiidae
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Cimolithium tenouklense
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3 specimens | ||||||
Gastropoda
- Tylostomatidae
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Tylostoma cossoni
Thomas and Peron 1889
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2 specimens | ||||||
Tylostoma pallaryi
(Peron and Fortau 1904)
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4 specimens | ||||||
Pterodonta deffisi
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2 specimens | ||||||
Gastropoda
- Aporrhaidae
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"Aporrhais" dutrugei
(Coquand 1862)
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4 specimens | ||||||
Harpagodes hebertii
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7 specimens | ||||||
"Strombus" incertus
(d'Orbigny 1842)
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5 specimens | ||||||
synonym of Harpagodes nodosus | |||||||
Gastropoda
- Colombellinidae
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Columbellina fusiformis
Douvillé 1916
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3 specimens | ||||||
Echinoidea
- Spatangoida
- Hemiasteridae
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Hemiaster gabrielis
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31 specimens | ||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Egypt |
Coordinates: | 30.4° North, 34.5° East (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 7.9° North, 28.4° East |
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early/Lower Cretaceous |
Stage: | Albian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 4 |
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Albian | ||
Age range of interval: | 105.30000 - 99.60000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Halal | Member: | Lower Marly |
Local section: | Gebel Areif El-Naqa | Local bed: | 1 |
Local order: | bottom to top | ||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | glauconitic,green,yellow "shale" |
Secondary lithology: | bioturbation,green,yellow "limestone" |
Lithology description: shales are yellowish-green to green, glauconitic, sandy in some parts, and poorly fossiliferous. The limestone and dolomitic limestone interlayers are yellowish-grey in colour, hard – sometimes too hard for breaking up by hammer -, bioturbated with Thalassinoides and dissected by vertical fissures | |
Environment: | open shallow subtidal |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,cast,mold/impression |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | bulk,field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 140606 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Aberhan | Enterer: | T. Schossleitner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2013-03-12 21:55:05 | Last modified: | 2013-03-12 05:55:05 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2013-03-12 21:55:05 |
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] |