Lower Campanian, Maafa, Les Tamarins, Aurès (Cretaceous of Algeria)

Where: Algeria (35.3° N, 5.8° E: paleocoordinates 22.6° N, 6.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, argillaceous wackestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C. Voute. 1951. Inoceramus algeriensis Heinz, une espèce mal connue d'Algérie, avec quelques nouvelles observations sur le mode de vie des inocérames. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France 1(1-3):205-211 [L. Villier/L. Villier]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 58369: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 01.02.2006

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Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
"Alectryonia nicaisei" = Nicaisolopha nicaisei
"Alectryonia nicaisei" = Nicaisolopha nicaisei Coquand 1862 oyster
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Pycnodonte vesicularis Lamarck 1806 oyster