Also known as Reef 4263
Where: Saudi Arabia (28.6° N, 34.8° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 28.2° N, 34.8° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
• MIS5e
Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; carbonate
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: M. Taviani, P. Montagna, N. M. A. Rasul, L. Angeletti, and W. Bosworth. 2019. Pleistocene Coral Reef Terraces on the Saudi Arabian Side of the Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea. Geological Setting, Palaeoenvironment and Archaeology of the Red Sea [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 198579: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 19.12.2018
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Gastropoda | |
"Turbo radiatus" = Turbo (Marmarostoma) radiatus
"Turbo radiatus" = Turbo (Marmarostoma) radiatus Gmelin 1791 snail | |
Diodora impedimentum snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Chama sp. Linnaeus 1758 jewel box | |
Trachycardium sp. Mörch 1853 cockle
Tridacna maxima Roeding 1798 cockle | |
Spondylus sp. Linnaeus 1758 scallop | |
Anthozoa | |
Acropora sp. Oken 1815 stony coral | |
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral | |
Fungia sp. Lamarck 1801 stony coral | |
Faviidae indet. Gregory 1900 stony coral |