Gebel Lagama (Barremian): Barremian, Egypt

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinna sp. Linnaeus 1758
Cephalopoda - Macroscaphitidae
Costidiscus recticostatus (d'Orbigny 1840)
recombined as Macroscaphites (Costidiscus) recticostatus
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Olcostephanidae
Lytoceras liebigi Uhlig 1903
original and current combination Holcostephanus (Spiticeras) obliquelobatus
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Lytoceratidae
Lytoceras sutile (Oppel 1863)
    = Lytoceras schlosseri Krenkel 1910
Förster and Weier 1983
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Crioceratitidae
Crioceras (Acanthodiscus) hammatoptychum (Uhlig 1883)
see common names

Geography
Country:Egypt
Coordinates: 30.8° North, 33.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:7.4° North, 28.9° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Stage:Barremian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 2
Key time interval:Barremian
Age range of interval:125.77000 - 121.40000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: probably Barremian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:fine,ferruginous,ooidal lithified "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: fine limestone with ferruginous oolites
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:171271
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Manojlovic, M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Manojlovic Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2015-07-05 01:58:46 Last modified:2015-07-05 02:06:23
Access level:the public Released:2015-07-05 01:58:46
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]

Secondary references:

57003 R. Förster and H. Weier. 1983. Ammoniten und Alter der Niongala-Schichten (Unterapt, Süd-Tanzania). Mitteilungen der Bayerischen Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Historische Geologie 23:51-76 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]