Strombidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of a Quaternary emerged coral terrace at Gebel Tanka, eastern side of the Gulf of Suez

Aboelmagd, Mahmoud Hassan; Asan, Anhar Hasan; Strougo, Amin Marco

doi:10.21608/egjg.2025.424678.1129

Strombidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of a Quaternary emerged coral terrace at Gebel Tanka, eastern side of the Gulf of Suez

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ Piece 227 (B), 10th Residential Area, Sadat City, Menoufia.

² Geology department Ain Shams University Faculty of Science

³ Geology department, Faculty of Science Ain Shams University

10.21608/egjg.2025.424678.1129

Abstract

This work reports the occurrence of six species of the gastropod family Strombidae belonging to 5 genera collected from a Quaternary emerged coral terrace at Gebel Tanka, eastern side of the Gulf of Suez. Four species are reported for the first time from the Pleistocene coral terraces of the Gulf of Suez; i.e., Canarium erythrinum (Dillwyn, 1817), Canarium fusiforme (G. B. Sowerby II, 1842), Dolomena? sp. and Lambis truncata sebae (Kiener, 1843). One species– Gibberulus albus (Mörch, 1850)– was reported in the Mediterranean. The six species were systematically discussed, and their geographical distribution and habit and habitat outlined. The studied outcrop is assigned by several authors to Marine Isotope Stage 5e (~ 125 ky ago).

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