Late Pleistocene reef fauna from the Red Sea coast, Northwest Saudi Arabia
The Late Pleistocene reef unit of the last interglacial marine isotope stage 5e stretches all over most of
the coastal cliffs and wadi cuts and interrupted only in wadi entrances along the Red Sea coast,
northwest Saudi Arabia. It studied and sampled from 12 localities between Duba and Sharma for microand
macrofossils record. Twenty-four foraminifera, 67 coral, 79 gastropod and 63 bivalve species were
identified. The identified assemblages, particularly scleractinians indicated a deepening upward pattern
for the studied late Pleistocene reef unit, starting with a coral assemblage of coral rock zone at the base,
above a conglomeratic bed, followed by reef crest facies, and grades into the upper reef slope
assemblages. The recorded taxa mostly have the Indo-Pacific affinity, and few elements have Atlantic-
Mediterranean and cosmopolitan realm.
Three major lithofacies have been described in Lajjun area, central Jordan, including
the phosphorite and intercalated limestone of the Al‐Hisa Phosphorite Formation,
as well as the…
The Late Pleistocene reef unit of the last interglacial marine isotope stage 5e stretches all over most of
the coastal cliffs and wadi cuts and interrupted only in wadi entrances along the…
Middle to Late Pleistocene coral reefs stretch in three discontinuously elevated units
above the present sea level between Duba and Sharma along the Red Sea coast,
northwest Saudi…