Gebel El Tourkumanyia, bed 9 (Cretaceous of Egypt)

Where: Egypt (30.8° N, 33.5° E: paleocoordinates 7.0° N, 28.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Aconeceras (Aconeceras) nisus ammonoid zone, Risan Aneiza Formation, Late/Upper Aptian (122.5 - 112.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified marl

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Geological Museum, Geology Department, Faculty of Science, Benha University

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 191699: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 09.02.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonoidea - Hamulinidae
Anahamulina cf. picteti Eichwald 1868 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Tetragonitidae
Eogaudryceras (Eotetragonites) raspaili Breistroffer 1947 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
Valdedorsella getulina Coquand 1880 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Bochianitidae
? Kabylites sp. Durand Delga 1954 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Oppeliidae
"Aconeceras (Aconeceras) nisus" = Aconeceras nisum
"Aconeceras (Aconeceras) nisus" = Aconeceras nisum d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite
Echinoidea
 Euechinoidea - Pseudodiadematidae
Tetragramma sp. Agassiz 1840 sea urchin
 Spatangoida -
Pliotoxaster collegnii Sismonda 1843 heart urchin
 Calycina - Diplopodiidae
Diplopodia sp. sea urchin