Rizan Aneiza hills, Sinai: Late/Upper Albian, Egypt

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Acteonellidae
Acteonella gracilis Douvillé 1916
Gastropoda - Colombellinidae
Columbellina fusiformis Douvillé 1916
Gastropoda - Diastomatidae
Diastoma ornatum Douvillé 1916
Gastropoda - Batillariidae
Pyrazus ornatum
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Arcticidae
Cyprina (Anisocardia) hermitei (Choffat 1901)
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
Cardita dupini (d'Orbigny 1843)
see common names

Geography
Country:Egypt
Coordinates: 30.9° North, 33.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:8.6° North, 27.9° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
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:106.20000 - 100.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Vraconian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:peel or thin section,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:161579
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:M. Krause
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2014-09-08 05:04:21 Last modified:2014-09-08 05:04:21
Access level:authorizer only Released:2014-12-08 05:04:21
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
52616. M. Avnimelech. 1947. A new species of Aspidiscus from the Middle Cretaceous of Sinai and remarks on this genus in general. Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae (Band 40)294-299 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]