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
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 | |
Parasmilia "sp. 2" Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
Montlivaltia sp. Lamouroux 1821 stony coral | |
Stylina "sp. 1" Lamarck 1816 stony coral | |
Micrabacia sp. Milne-Edwards 1849 stony coral | |
Echinoidea | |
Heteraster verruculatua heart urchin
Heteraster constrictus Fourtau 1921 heart urchin | |
Gastropoda | |
Pseudomesalia bilineata Douvillé 1916 turret shell | |
Tylostoma (Tylostoma) canaliculata n. sp. snail | |
Tudicla sp. Röding 1798 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Trigonia undulatocostata Blanckenhorn 1890 clam | |
Corbula magharensis clam | |
Protocardia (Protocardia) hillana Sowerby 1813 cockle | |
"Exogyra complicata" = Ceratostreon flabellatum
"Exogyra complicata" = Ceratostreon flabellatum Goldfuss 1833 oyster | |
Cephalopoda | |
Crioceratites cf. dilata ammonite |