Gebel El Tourkumanyia, bed 61: Late/Upper Albian, Egypt
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Brancoceratidae
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Mortoniceras (Subschloenbachia) rostratum
(Sowerby 1817)
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Geography
| Country: | Egypt |
| Coordinates: | 30.8° North, 33.5° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 8.5° North, 27.7° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early/Lower Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Albian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 4 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Albian | Ammonoid zone: | Mortoniceras (Subschloenbachia) rostratum |
| Age range of interval: | 106.20000 - 100.50000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Halal |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified "limestone" |
| Lithology description: Chalky limestone | |
| Environment: | carbonate indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: Repository: Geological Museum, Geology Department, Faculty of Science, Benha University | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 191707 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2018-02-09 23:27:39 | Last modified: | 2021-06-19 12:10:55 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2018-02-09 23:27:39 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 64660. | 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] |