Talat el Fellahin (Albian) (Cretaceous of Egypt)

Where: Egypt (30.6° N, 33.4° E: paleocoordinates 7.6° N, 27.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: poorly lithified, ferruginous, ooidal, yellow limestone

• soft yellow limestones, with a few large 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 171301: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 05.07.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Knemiceratidae
Knemiceras gracile Douvillé 1916 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Douvilleiceratidae
Douvilleiceras mamillare Schlotheim 1813 ammonite
Bivalvia
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Trigonia analoga n. sp. Douvillé 1916 clam