Zug el-Bahar section, sample 11: Burdigalian, Egypt
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Lituolida
- Lituolidae
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Textularia spp.
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Florideophyceae
- Corallinales
- Lithophyllaceae
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Lithophyllum ghorabi
Souaya 1963
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Florideophyceae
- Corallinales
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Archaeolithothamnium sp.
Rothpletz 1891
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Florideophyceae
- Hapalidiales
- Lithothamniacae
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Lithothamnium saxorum
Capeder 1900
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Geography
| Country: | Egypt | County: | Qoseir |
| Coordinates: | 25.8° North, 34.4° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 24.7° North, 33.1° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| Stage: | Burdigalian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 |
| Key time interval: | Burdigalian | Zone: | "Neoalveolina" melo |
| Age range of interval: | 20.44000 - 15.98000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | calcareous sandstone |
| Environment: | shallow subtidal indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | mesofossils,microfossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 147617 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | M. Krause |
| Modifier: | M. Krause | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2013-07-10 18:07:42 | Last modified: | 2013-07-10 09:29:19 |
| Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2013-10-10 18:07:42 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 47525. | F. J. Souaya. 1963. Micropaleontology of four sections south of Qoseir, Egypt. Micropaleontology 9(3):233-266 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause] |