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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Hemiaster medjesensis heart urchin | |
Bivalvia | |
"Alectryonia nicaisei" = Nicaisolopha nicaisei
"Alectryonia nicaisei" = Nicaisolopha nicaisei Coquand 1862 oyster | |
Pycnodonte vesicularis Lamarck 1806 oyster |