Gabal Abu Durba (Carboniferous of Egypt)
Also known as Gabal Abu Durba: Abu Durba Fm.
Where: Egypt (28.6° N, 33.3° E: paleocoordinates 34.0° S, 31.1° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Abu Durba Formation, Moscovian (315.2 - 307.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; gray, green shale and dolomite
• Shale: dark grey-green and dolostone thin beds
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: M. Kora. 1995. Carboniferous macrofauna from Sinai, Egypt: biostratigraphy and paleogeography. Journal of African Earth Sciences 20(1):37-51 [L. Ivany/P. Wall/P. Wall]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 46988: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 28.01.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Stenolaemata | |
Fistulipora sp. McCoy 1850 | |
Rhombotrypella sp. Nikiforova 1933 | |
Strophomenata | |
"Streptorhynchus crenistria" = Orthothetes crenistria
"Streptorhynchus crenistria" = Orthothetes crenistria Phillips 1836 | |
Chonetinella sp. Ramsbottom 1952 | |
Reticulatia sp. Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960 | |
Antiquatonia sp. Miloradovich 1945 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Rhynchopora sp. King 1865 | |
Neospirifer cameratus Morton 1836 | |
Choristites cf. mosquensis Fischer 1825 | |
Hustedia sp. Hall and Clarke 1893 | |
Gastropoda | |
Pseudozygopleura (Pseudozygopleura) sp. Knight 1930 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Edmondia sp. de Koninck 1841 clam | |
Trilobita | |
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite |