Bled-el-Kerial (Beni-Bahdel) (Jurassic of Algeria)

Where: Algeria (34.7° N, 1.5° W: paleocoordinates 27.0° N, 1.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Calcaires du Tisseddoura Formation, Late/Upper Pliensbachian (189.6 - 183.0 Ma)

• Lavinianum-Algovianum zones

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: U.F.R. des Sciences de la Terre, Université Claude Bernard, Lyon l.

Primary reference: Y. Alméras, S. Elmi, and P. Fauré. 2007. Les brachiopods liasiques d'Algérie occidentale. Documents des Laboratoires de Géologie de la Faculté des Sciences de Lyon 163:1-241 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 208937: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.04.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Prionorhynchiidae