Bir Lagama (Late Barremian) (Cretaceous of Egypt)

Where: Egypt (30.8° N, 33.4° E: paleocoordinates 7.5° N, 28.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Barremian (130.0 - 125.5 Ma)

• 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 171300: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 05.07.2015, edited by Matthew Clapham and Pete Wagner

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Cenoceratidae
Heminautilus rangei1
Heminautilus rangei1 Hoppe 1922 nautiloid
Nautilus lallieri in Douvillé (pl 17, figs 2-4,6) - assigned to Aptian but probably Late Barremian
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
Barremitites strettostoma2
Barremitites strettostoma2 Uhlig 1883 ammonite
1Baudouin et al. 2016; 2Vermeulen et al. 2010