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Jebel el Rishe , North Sinai Governorate, Egypt
Lat/Long (Decimal) | 30.69,34.445 |
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Co-ordinates Derivation | estimated from map |
Mindat.org Region (for given coordinates) | North Sinai Governorate, Egypt |
Collections
Collection | Reference | Stratigraphic Name | Comments | Lithology | Age |
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Jebel el Rishe (coord. 097/011) | Parnes A. (1964) | Parnes believed the strata were of early Coniacian age. Later work by Lewy (1975, p. 25, 30) cast doubt on this assignment, according to Cobban & Hook, 1980. | "limestone" | 93.5 - 89.3 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous |
Recorded Fossils
Accepted Name | Hierarchy | Age |
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Coilopoceras zihoricum species | Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ammonoidea : Coilopoceratidae : Coilopoceras : Coilopoceras zihoricum | 93.5 - 89.3 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous |
References
Parnes A. (1964) Coniacian ammonites from the Negev (Southern Israel), Geological Survey of Israel, Bulletin 39, 1-41 |
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!