Gebel Lagama (Barremian) (Cretaceous of Egypt)

Where: Egypt (30.8° N, 33.4° E: paleocoordinates 7.4° N, 28.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Barremian (129.4 - 125.0 Ma)

• probably Barremian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, fine-grained, ferruginous, ooidal limestone

• fine limestone with ferruginous oolites

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: École des Mines de Paris (most likely)

Primary reference: H. Douvillé. 1916. Les terrains secondaires dans le massif du Moghara à l’Est de l’isthme de Suez. Mémoire de l’Académie des Sciences, Paris 54(2):1-184 [L. Bulot/L. Bulot/M. Manojlovic]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 171271: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 05.07.2015, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonoidea - Macroscaphitidae
"Costidiscus recticostatus" = Macroscaphites (Costidiscus) recticostatus
"Costidiscus recticostatus" = Macroscaphites (Costidiscus) recticostatus d'Orbigny 1840 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Crioceratitidae
 Ammonitida - Lytoceratidae
Lytoceras schlosseri Krenkel 1910 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Olcostephanidae
"Lytoceras liebigi" = Holcostephanus (Spiticeras) obliquelobatus Uhlig 1903 ammonite
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinna sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster