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
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 | |
"Tetragonites cf. duvali" = Tetragonites (Tetragonites) duvalianus
"Tetragonites cf. duvali" = Tetragonites (Tetragonites) duvalianus d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite | |
Gastropoda | |
Harpagodes beaumontiana d'Orbigny 1842 snail | |
Columbellina fusiformis n. sp.
Columbellina fusiformis n. sp. Douvillé 1916 snail | |
Diastoma ornatum Douvillé 1916 snail |