Gebel El-Maghara breached anticline (Jurassic of Egypt)

Where: Egypt (30.7° N, 33.4° E: paleocoordinates 10.4° N, 28.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Micromphalites ammonoid zone, Dhruma Formation, Bathonian (168.3 - 166.1 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: platform or shelf-margin reef; lithified, ferruginous, brown, yellow wackestone and poorly lithified, ferruginous, brown, yellow packstone

• ochre colored wackestones with scattered patches of packstones and sporadically dispersed ferruginous grains

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Hegab in 1999

• Repository: Department of Paleontology, the Faculty of Mining and Geology, the University of Belgrade, Serbia (RGF VR).

Primary reference: H. R. Feldman, V. J. Radulovic, A. A. A. Hegab and B. V. Radulovic. 2012. Taxonomy and paleobiogeography of late Bathonian brachiopods from Gebel Engabashi, northern Sinai. Journal of Paleontology 86(2):238-252 [M. Clapham/M. Manojlovic/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 157595: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 25.06.2014, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Cyclothyrididae
 Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
 Terebratulida - Loboidothyrididae
Avonothyris "species A" Buckman 1917
1 specimen with a damaged beak
"Cooperithyris circularis n. sp." = Sinaithyris circularis Feldman et al. 2012
Ectyphoria sinaiensis n. sp. Feldman et al. 2012