Bir Lagama (Albian): Albian, Egypt

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
Puzosia (Latidorsella) latidorsata (Michelin 1838)
recombined as Desmoceras (Desmoceras) latidorsatum
Gastropoda - Trajanellidae
Trajanella brevispira n. sp. Douvillé 1916
Gastropoda - Aporrhaidae
Drepanochilus calcaratus (Sowerby 1822)
Gastropoda - Colombellinidae
Columbellina fusiformis Douvillé 1916
see common names

Geography
Country:Egypt
Coordinates: 30.8° North, 33.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:7.8° North, 27.9° 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:ferruginous,ooidal,yellow lithified "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: yellow limestone with large ferruginous 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:171299
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Manojlovic
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2015-07-05 15:02:03 Last modified:2015-07-05 15:02:03
Access level:the public Released:2015-07-05 15:02:03
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]