Gebel Aroussieh (Lower Bajocian gray limestone) (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: Early/Lower Bajocian (171.6 - 168.4 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, gray limestone

• gray limestone

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 170873: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 28.06.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Perisphinctidae
"Perisphinctes tenuiplicatus" = Leptosphinctes tenuiplicatus
"Perisphinctes tenuiplicatus" = Leptosphinctes tenuiplicatus Brauns 1865 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Stephanoceratidae
"Coeloceras coronatoides" = Ermoceras (Telermoceras) coronatoides
"Coeloceras coronatoides" = Ermoceras (Telermoceras) coronatoides Douvillé 1916 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Coeloceratidae
Coeloceras humphriesianus Sowerby 1825 ammonite