Gebel Aroussieh (Oxfordian): Oxfordian, Egypt

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Belemnitida - Belemnopseidae
Belemnopsis hastata (Blainville 1808)
see common names

Geography
Country:Egypt
Coordinates: 30.6° North, 33.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:10.3° North, 27.8° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Jurassic Epoch: Late Jurassic
Stage: Oxfordian 10 m.y. bin: Jurassic 5
Key time interval: Oxfordian
Age range of interval: 161.5 - 154.8 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:fine,gray lithified "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: gray lithographic limestone
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: École des Mines de Paris (most likely)
Metadata
Database number:171260
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Manojlovic
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2015-07-05 00:42:26 Last modified:2015-07-05 00:42:26
Access level:the public Released:2015-07-05 00:42:26
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

36012.fossil record 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]