Abstract
The study of Carboniferous successions in the Um Bogma and Abu Durba areas of west-central Sinai yielded 70 species of brachiopods, corals, bryozoans, molluscs and trace fossils, 10 of which are new to Sinai. The distribution of these fossils suggests the presence of three macrofaunal biostratigraphic units within distinctive lithofacies: a Middle-early Late Visean coral/brachiopod assemblage in the Um Bogma Formation, a Serpukhovian-Bashkirian brachiopod/trace fossil assemblage in the Abu Thora Formation and an Early Moscovian brachiopod/bryozoan assemblage in the Abu Durba Formation. The fossil associations indicate that the Carboniferous sequence of Sinai was deposited in a subtropical epicontinental sea inferred to have covered a greater area in northern Africa. The palaeoecological conditions and the palaeobiogeographic relations of these macrofaunas to the Carboniferous Palaeotethys Realm are discussed.
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