Zabargad Island, ("Young Reef Limestone"), Egypt - Bonatti et al. (1983) (Pleistocene of Egypt)

Where: Egypt (23.6° N, 36.2° E: paleocoordinates 23.5° N, 36.1° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: "Young Reef Limestone" Formation, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• Terrace deposits, 2-4 m above present sea level, lying stratigraphically above the Old Conglomerate and breccias, and "Old Reef Limestone". Highly fossiliferous and Pleistocene in age.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; unlithified sandstone

• The deposits clearly belong to typical coastal reefs with lagoonal, reef-flat and reef-slope facies.
• Sandy. No further lithological data presented.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: No collections referred to.

Primary reference: E. Bonatti, R. Clocchiatti, P. Colantoni, R. Gelmini, G. Marinelli, G. Ottonello, R. Santacroce, M. Taviani, A.A. Abdel-Meguid, H.S. Assaf, and M.A. El Tahir. 1983. Zabargad (St. John's) Island: an uplifted fragment of sub-Red Sea lithosphere. Journal of the Geological Society 140(4):677-690 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/J. Millet]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 42887: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 06.08.2004

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Taxonomic list

• Certainly not complete or representative with only two molluscan taxa.
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Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Strombidae
Strombus sp.
Strombus sp. Linnaeus 1758 conch
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Ungulinidae
Diplodonta sp.
Diplodonta sp. Bronn 1831 clam