Gebel Aroussieh (Upper Bajocian indet) (Jurassic of Egypt)

Where: Egypt (30.6° N, 33.3° E: paleocoordinates 10.5° N, 27.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Bajocian (171.6 - 167.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

• unspecified yellow layers

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite, replaced with limonite

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 170869: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 28.06.2015, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Perisphinctidae
"Perisphinctes tenuiplicatus" = Leptosphinctes tenuiplicatus
"Perisphinctes tenuiplicatus" = Leptosphinctes tenuiplicatus Brauns 1865 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Coeloceratidae
Coeloceras humphriesianus Sowerby 1825 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Stephanoceratidae
Normannites egyptiacus n. sp. Arkell 1952 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Lytoceratidae
"Lytoceras adeloides" = Lytoceras eudesianum adeloides
"Lytoceras adeloides" = Lytoceras eudesianum adeloides Kudernatsch 1852 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Lissoceratidae
Lissoceras oolithicum d'Orbigny 1846 ammonite
 Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
"Phylloceras (Triphyllites) mediterraneum" = Holcophylloceras mediterraneum
"Phylloceras (Triphyllites) mediterraneum" = Holcophylloceras mediterraneum Neumayr 1871 ammonite
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Malleidae
Heligmus integer n. sp. Douvillé 1916 oyster