Station 20, Wadi Tayyib Ism, Gulf of Aqaba (Pleistocene of Saudi Arabia)

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

• reefal carbonates with conglomeratic layers

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
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Gastropoda
 Trochoidea - Turbinidae
"Turbo radiatus" = Turbo (Marmarostoma) radiatus
"Turbo radiatus" = Turbo (Marmarostoma) radiatus Gmelin 1791 snail
 Lepetellida - Fissurellidae
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Chamidae
Chama sp. Linnaeus 1758 jewel box
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Trachycardium sp. Mörch 1853 cockle
Tridacna maxima Roeding 1798 cockle
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Spondylus sp. Linnaeus 1758 scallop
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora sp. Oken 1815 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Fungiidae
Fungia sp. Lamarck 1801 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Faviidae
Faviidae indet. Gregory 1900 stony coral