Gabal Manzour (Cretaceous of Egypt)

Where: Egypt (30.7° N, 33.5° E: paleocoordinates 7.7° N, 27.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Albian (109.0 - 105.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone and lithified sandstone

• peloidal packstone, skeletal wackestone, oolitic grainstone, calcareous sandstones, claystone, 28 m thick

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Primary reference: N. M. Aboul Ela, G. L. Abdel-Gawad, and M. F. Aly. 1991. Albian fauna of Gabal Manzour, Maghara area, north Sinai, Egypt. Journal of African Earth Sciences 13(2):201-220 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 98326: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 01.10.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Calycina - Heterodiadematidae
"Pseudodiadema libanoticum" = Loriolidiadema libanoticum
"Pseudodiadema libanoticum" = Loriolidiadema libanoticum de Loriol 1887 sea urchin
 Spatangoida - Toxasteridae
Toxaster lamberti heart urchin
Toxaster lyonsi heart urchin
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Silesitidae
"Neposiella nepos" = Neosilesites
"Neposiella nepos" = Neosilesites ammonite
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
Puzosia lata Seitz 1931 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Knemiceratidae
Knemiceras rittmanni Mahmoud 1955 ammonite
Knemiceras spathi Mahmoud 1955 ammonite
Knemiceras deserti Mahmoud 1955 ammonite
 Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
Phylloceras semistriatum d'Orbigny 1840 ammonite
Bivalvia
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula (Nucula) margaritifera Douvillé 1916 nut clam
 Pectinida - Neitheoidae
Neithea (Neithea) syriaca Conrad 1852 scallop
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
"Exogyra arduennensis" = Rhynchostreon mermeti, "Exogyra complicata" = Ceratostreon flabellatum
"Exogyra arduennensis" = Rhynchostreon mermeti Coquand 1862 oyster
"Exogyra complicata" = Ceratostreon flabellatum Goldfuss 1833 oyster
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
 Cardiida - Veneridae
"Meretrix" orientalis Douvillé 1916 venus clam
 Megalodontida - Dicerocardiidae
 Carditida - Carditidae
 Trigoniida - Megatrigonioidae
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Trigonia picteti Coquand 1865 clam
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Potamididae
"Pyrazus (Echinobathra) magharensis" = Echinobathra
"Pyrazus (Echinobathra) magharensis" = Echinobathra horn snail
var. rekibensis
 Sorbeoconcha - Tylostomatidae
 Architaenioglossa - Ampullinidae