Gebel Manzour (Albian): Albian, Egypt

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Hamitidae
Hamites cf. compressus Sowerby 1814
recombined as Planohamites compressus
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Crioceratitidae
Crioceras cf. munieri Sarasin and Schondelmayer 1902
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Knemiceratidae
Knemiceras uhligi (Choffat 1886)
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Beudanticeratidae
Desmoceras beudanti (Brongniart 1822)
recombined as Beudanticeras beudanti
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Silesitidae
Silesites nepos Douvillé 1916
1 specimen
recombined as Neosilesites nepos
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Nerinellidae
Nerinella cf. algarbiensis Choffat 1901
Gastropoda - Batillariidae
Pyrazus valeriae (de Verneuil and de Loriere 1868)
Gastropoda - Diastomatidae
Diastoma ornatum n. sp. Douvillé 1916
Gastropoda - Colombellinidae
Columbellina fusiformis Douvillé 1916
Gastropoda - Aporrhaidae
Perissoptera sp. Tate 1865
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Exogyra boussingaulti d'Orbigny 1842
recombined as Amphidonte (Ceratostreon) boussingaulti
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Granocardium quinquecostatum n. sp. Douvillé 1916
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Meretrix (Flaventia) deserti n. sp. Douvillé 1916
Meretrix (Flaventia) orientalis n. sp. Douvillé 1916
Meretrix (Flaventia) brongniarti (Leymerie 1842)
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Arcticidae
Cyprina (Anisocardia) hermitei (Choffat 1901)
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
Cardita dupini (d'Orbigny 1843)
Orbitolinidae
Orbitolina cf. concava (Lamarck 1816)
see common names

Geography
Country:Egypt
Coordinates: 30.7° North, 33.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:7.7° North, 27.8° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Stage:Albian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 4
Key time interval:Albian
Age range of interval:113.00000 - 100.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:fine,ferruginous,ooidal lithified "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: fine limestones with large ferrugionous oolites
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: École des Mines de Paris (most likely)
Metadata
Database number:171276
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Manojlovic
Modifier:M. Manojlovic Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2015-07-05 02:18:54 Last modified:2015-07-10 01:03:04
Access level:the public Released:2015-07-05 02:18:54
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
36012.fossil record 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]