Where: Algeria (35.6° N, 8.1° E: paleocoordinates 19.1° N, 7.7° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Mantelliceras mantelli ammonoid zone, Fahdene Formation, Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)
• Sharpeiceras schlueteri subzone, and basal part of the unit lacking ammonites
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: poorly lithified marl
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collection methods: Repository: Laboratory of Geodynamics, Engineering Geology and Planetology of the University of Science and Technology Houari Boumediene (USTHB; Algiers, Algeria).
Primary reference: S. Mendir, S. Salmi-Laouar, G. M. El Qot, W. Ayoub-Hannaa, and B. Ferré. 2021. Cenomanian (Upper Cretaceous) bivalves from the Hameimat Massifs, north of Tebessa, Algeria: Systematics, biostratigraphy, palaeoecological and taphonomical remarks. Annales de Paléontologie 107(102471) [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 220822: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.06.2021
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Meretrix desvauxi Coquand 1862 venus clam
Paraesa faba Sowerby 1827 venus clam | |
? Granocardium sp. Gabb 1869 cockle | |
Sphaera corrugata Sowerby 1822 clam | |
Gyrostrea delettrei Coquand 1862 oyster
Costagyra olisiponensis Sharpe 1850 oyster
Rhynchostreon suborbiculatum Lamarck 1801 oyster
Exogyra conica Sowerby 1813 oyster | |
Lopha syphax Coquand 1854 oyster | |
Plicatula (Plicatula) auressensis Coquand 1862 scallop
Plicatula (Plicatula) ferryi Coquand 1862 scallop | |
Cucullaea (Idonearca) trigona Seguenza 1882 clam
Cucullaea (Idonearca) thevestensis Coquand 1862 clam |