Where: Egypt (29.7° N, 34.5° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 12.8° N, 39.5° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Galala Formation, Middle Cenomanian to Middle Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified marl and packstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: W. Ayoub-Hannaa and F. T. Fürsich. 2012. Palaeoecology and environmental significance of benthic associations from the Cenomanian-Turonian of eastern Sinai, Egypt. Beringeria (42)93-138 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Krause]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 150611: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 11.09.2013
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
| Demospongiae | |
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Actinostromarianina "sp. 2" Lecompte 1952 demosponge | |
| Gastropoda | |
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Pchelinsevia coquandiana top snail | |
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Pterodonta cf. deffisi snail | |
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Pyrazus valeriae de Verneuil and de Loriere 1868 snail | |
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Neritopsis sp. Grateloup 1832 snail | |
| Bivalvia | |
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Nucula (Nucula) margaritifera Douvillé 1916 nut clam | |
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Ceratostreon flabellatum Goldfuss 1833 oyster | |
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Neithea (Neithea) dutrugei Dutrugei 1862 scallop | |
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Chondrodonta joannae scallop | |
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Pterotrigonia (Scabrotrigonia) scabra Lamarck 1819 clam | |
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Praeradiolites biskraensis rudist | |
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Cyclina sp. venus clam | |
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Glossus aquilinus Coquand 1862 clam | |