Gebel El Tourkumanyia, bed 50 (Cretaceous of Egypt)

Where: Egypt (30.8° N, 33.5° E: paleocoordinates 7.8° N, 27.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Halal Formation, Middle Albian (109.0 - 105.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified marl

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Geological Museum, Geology Department, Faculty of Science, Benha University

Primary reference: G. M. El Qot. 2018. Aptian-early Cenomanian ammonites from north Sinai, Egypt: systematic paleontology and biostratigraphy. Cretaceous Research 85:142-171 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 191703: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 09.02.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Knemiceratidae
Knemiceras spathi Mahmoud 1955 ammonite
Echinoidea
 Euechinoidea - Pedinopsidae
Pedinopsis humilis Fourtau 1921 sea urchin
 Calycina - Emiratiidae
Emiratia raskhaimahensis Ali 1990 sea urchin
 Echinoneoida - Conulidae
Globator aegyptiaca n. sp. El Qot 2021 sea urchin
 Holectypoida - Anorthopygidae
Anorthopygus orbicularis de Grateloup 1836 sea urchin
 Holectypoida - Holectypidae
Coenholectypus macropygus Agassiz 1836 sea urchin
 Arbacioida - Arbaciidae
Goniopygus menardi Desmarest in Defrance 1925 sea urchin