Gebel Moghara (indet.) (Cretaceous of Egypt)

Where: Egypt (30.6° N, 33.4° E: paleocoordinates 9.7° N, 27.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• Indeterminate stratigraphic position, Albian or higher (assumed to be Middle Cenomanian)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, gray, yellow limestone

• gray yellow limestone

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 171275: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 05.07.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Tetragonitidae
Kossmatella costata n. sp. Douvillé 1916 ammonite