Gebel El Mistan, bed 50: Late/Upper Albian, Egypt

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
Puzosia (Puzosia) cf. mayoriana (d'Orbigny 1841)
Puzosia (Puzosia) communis (Spath 1923)
Puzosia (Bhimaites) cf. stoliczkai (Kossmat 1898)
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Mojsisovicsiidae
Oxytropidoceras (Venezoliceras) karsteni (Stieler 1920)
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Brancoceratidae
Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) inflatum (Sowerby 1818)
see common names

Geography
Country:Egypt
Coordinates: 30.8° North, 33.6° 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 (Mortoniceras) inflatum
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 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:191715
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2018-02-09 23:36:29 Last modified:2018-02-09 23:40:26
Access level:the public Released:2018-02-09 23:36:29
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]