Gebel Oum Rekeba (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, yellow limestone

• yellow limestone without 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 171277: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 05.07.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
Phylloceras cf. rouyanum d'Orbigny 1840 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Silesitidae
"Silesites nepos n. sp." = Neosilesites nepos
"Silesites nepos n. sp." = Neosilesites nepos Douvillé 1916 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Knemiceratidae
Knemiceras uhligi Choffat 1886 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Hamitidae
Hamites cf. elegans d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Cassiopidae
Glauconia deserti Douvillé 1916 snail
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
Cerithium (Uchauxia) mogharense n. sp. Douvillé 1916 cerith snail