Gebel Manzour (Lower Cenomanian) (Cretaceous of Egypt)

Where: Egypt (30.7° N, 33.5° E: paleocoordinates 9.8° N, 27.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• fine limestones with large ferrugionous 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 171394: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 09.07.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Granocardium quinquecostatum Douvillé 1916 cockle