Bir Lagama (Barremian) (Cretaceous of Egypt)

Where: Egypt (30.8° N, 33.5° E: paleocoordinates 7.3° N, 29.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Barremian (129.4 - 125.0 Ma)

• probably Barremian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, fine-grained, ferruginous, ooidal limestone

• fine limestone with ferruginous oolites

Size class: macrofossils

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 171269: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 05.07.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Belemnitida - Duvaliidae
Pseudobelus aptiensis Stolley 1913 belemnite
 Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
"Phylloceras infundibulum" = Phyllopachyceras infundibulum d'Orbigny 1840 ammonite
Phylloceras semistriatum d'Orbigny 1840 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Crioceratitidae
Crioceras cf. dilatatum d'Orbigny 1840 ammonite
Crioceras cf. obliquatum d'Orbigny 1840 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
"Puzosia matheroni" = Pseudohaploceras matheroni, "Knemiceras priscum n. sp." = Mogharaeceras priscum
"Puzosia matheroni" = Pseudohaploceras matheroni d'Orbigny 1840 ammonite
"Knemiceras priscum n. sp." = Mogharaeceras priscum Douvillé 1916 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Douvilleiceratidae
Douvilleiceras meyendorffi d'Orbigny 1845 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Ancyloceratidae
"Crioceras cf. simplex" = Dirrymoceras simplex
"Crioceras cf. simplex" = Dirrymoceras simplex d'Orbigny 1842 ammonite
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia peregrinorsa d'Orbigny 1842 cockle