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

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bajocian (170.3 - 168.3 Ma)

• Shells collected "not in place", likely from local outcrop float

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

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 171091: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 02.07.2015

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