Gebel El Mistan, bed 18: Early Albian, Egypt

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
Phylloceras (Hypophylloceras) velledae velledae
Phylloceras (Hypophylloceras) velledae inflatum
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Knemiceratidae
Knemiceras gracile Douvillé 1916
Knemiceras spathi Mahmoud 1955
see common names

Geography
Country:Egypt
Coordinates: 30.8° North, 33.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:10.6° North, 41.2° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Early Cretaceous
Stage: Albian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 4
Key time interval: Early Albian Ammonoid zone:  Knemiceras gracile
Age range of interval: 113 - 109.9 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Risan Aneiza
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified marl
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:191711
Authorizer:M. Clapham, B. Allen Enterer:M. Clapham, B. Allen
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2018-02-09 23:34:06 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2018-02-09 23:34:06
Creative Commons license:CC0
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]