Gebel Oum Rekeba (quartz limestone) (Cretaceous of Egypt)

Where: Egypt (30.7° N, 33.5° E: paleocoordinates 8.4° N, 27.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)

• "Upper Vraconian"

Environment/lithology: lithified, quartzose, yellow limestone

• yellow limestone with large quartz grains

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 171404: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 10.07.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Orbitolinacea - Orbitolinidae
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea directa Blanckenhorn 1890 oyster