Gabal Manzour (Cretaceous of Egypt)

Where: Egypt (30.7° N, 33.5° E: paleocoordinates 7.3° N, 28.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Albian (112.0 - 109.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone and lithified sandstone

• intraclastic skeletal packstone, skeletal wackestone, calcareous and ferruginous sandstones, shale, 39 m thick

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Primary reference: N. M. Aboul Ela, G. L. Abdel-Gawad, and M. F. Aly. 1991. Albian fauna of Gabal Manzour, Maghara area, north Sinai, Egypt. Journal of African Earth Sciences 13(2):201-220 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 98325: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 01.10.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Parasmilia "sp. 2" Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Montlivaltia sp. Lamouroux 1821 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Stylinidae
Stylina "sp. 1" Lamarck 1816 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Micrabaciidae
Micrabacia sp. Milne-Edwards 1849 stony coral
Echinoidea
 Spatangoida - Toxasteridae
Heteraster constrictus Fourtau 1921 heart urchin
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Pseudomesalia bilineata Douvillé 1916 turret shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Tylostomatidae
 Ptenoglossa - Vasidae
Tudicla sp. Röding 1798 snail
Bivalvia
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Trigonia undulatocostata Blanckenhorn 1890 clam
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
"Exogyra complicata" = Ceratostreon flabellatum
"Exogyra complicata" = Ceratostreon flabellatum Goldfuss 1833 oyster
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Crioceratitidae