Gabal Maaza, Halal Fm, GM I: Middle Cenomanian, Egypt

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Eoradiolites liratus (Conrad 1852)
Orbitolinidae
Orbitolina (Conicorbitolina) conica
see common names

Geography
Country:Egypt
Coordinates: 30.7° North, 33.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:9.8° North, 27.6° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Cenomanian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 5
Key time interval:Middle Cenomanian
Age range of interval:100.50000 - 93.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Halal
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Secondary lithology: marl
Lithology description: These rudist beds are mainly built up of limestone intercalated with marl and dolostone.
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Geology comments: inner shelf setting or carbonate platform interior, affected by storm events
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:184772
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:M. Krause
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2017-03-22 06:35:42 Last modified:2017-03-24 16:33:09
Access level:authorizer only Released:2017-09-22 06:35:42
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
61932. Y. F. Salama, G. I. Abdel-Gawad, S. G. Saber, S. H. El-Shazly, G. M. Grammer and S. Oezer. 2016. Chemostratigraphy of the Cenomanian-Turonian shallow-water carbonate: new correlation for the rudist levels from north Sinai, Egypt. Arabian Journal of Geosciences 9(755) [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Uhen]