Gebel oum Raghaoui (Cretaceous of Egypt)

Where: Egypt (30.8° N, 33.4° E: paleocoordinates 7.8° N, 27.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: poorly lithified, ferruginous, ooidal, yellow limestone

• soft yellow limestone with large rare ferruginous oolites

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: École des Mines de Paris (most likely)

Primary reference: H. Douvillé. 1916. Les terrains secondaires dans le massif du Moghara à l’Est de l’isthme de Suez. Mémoire de l’Académie des Sciences, Paris 54(2):1-184 [L. Bulot/L. Bulot/M. Manojlovic]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 171274: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 05.07.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Tetragonitidae
"Tetragonites cf. duvali" = Tetragonites (Tetragonites) duvalianus
"Tetragonites cf. duvali" = Tetragonites (Tetragonites) duvalianus d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae
Harpagodes beaumontiana d'Orbigny 1842 snail
Drepanochilus calcaratus Sowerby 1822 snail
Drepanochilus calcaratus var ornata
 Sorbeoconcha - Colombellinidae
Columbellina fusiformis n. sp. Douvillé 1916 snail
 Cerithioidea - Diastomatidae
Diastoma ornatum Douvillé 1916 snail