Station 22, Wadi Tayyib Ism, Gulf of Aqaba (Pleistocene of Saudi Arabia)

Where: Saudi Arabia (28.5° N, 34.8° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 28.1° 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

• coral-rich facies, back-reef lagoonal red sands

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 198583: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 20.12.2018

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

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Hydrozoa
 Milleporina -
Millepora sp.
Millepora sp. fire coral
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Faviidae
Faviidae indet.
Faviidae indet. Gregory 1900 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites sp.
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Fungiidae
Fungia sp.
Fungia sp. Lamarck 1801 stony coral
unclassified
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Mollusca indet.
Mollusca indet. Linnaeus 1758
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Strombidae
Lambis truncata
Lambis truncata conch
Lambis truncata sebae
Bivalvia
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Codakia tigerina
Codakia tigerina Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Ichnofossils -
Thalassinoides sp.
Thalassinoides sp. Ehrenberg 1944