Gebel Kalieh (Millericrinus) (Jurassic of Egypt)

Where: Egypt (30.7° N, 33.5° E: paleocoordinates 10.3° N, 28.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Oxfordian (163.5 - 157.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, gray, yellow limestone

• compact gray yellow limestone

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 171258: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 05.07.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Crinoidea
 Millericrinida - Millericrinidae
Millericrinus echinatus Schlotheim 1820 Sea lily
Millericrinus goupili d'Orbigny 1839 Sea lily
Millericrinus rotiformis d'Orbigny 1850 Sea lily
 Isocrinida - Pentacrinitidae
Pentacrinus sp. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Cephalopoda
 Belemnitida - Belemnopseidae
Belemnopsis hastata Blainville 1808 belemnite
 Ammonitida - Pachyceratidae
Pachyceras sp. Bayle 1878 ammonite
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpula vertebralis Sowerby 1829
Serpula vertebralis race asiatica