KEK.14, Khechem El Kelb, Jebel Sidi Khalif (Jurassic of Tunisia)

Where: Tunisia (35.1° N, 9.7° E: paleocoordinates 24.1° N, 12.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Guemgouma Formation, Bajocian (170.3 - 168.3 Ma)

• Propinquans-Humphriesanum zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, ooidal limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: P. Fauré, Y. Alméras, N. Sekatni, M. S. Arfaoui, and F. Zargouni. 2015. Les brachiopodes du Jurassique inférieur et moyen en Tunisie centrale (Axe Nord-Sud). Un nouveau témoin du domaine paléobiogéographique ouest-téthysien. Geodiversitas 37:31-57 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 169200: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 09.05.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
Burmirhynchia termierae Rousselle 1965
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Sonniniidae
"Pelekodites aff. sulcata" = Witchellia, Dorsetensia romani
"Pelekodites aff. sulcata" = Witchellia ammonite
 Ammonitida - Stephanoceratidae
"Skirroceras macrum" = Stephanoceras (Skirroceras) ammonite
Teloceras sp. ammonite
Normannites ex gr. orbignyi Buckman 1908 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Sphaeroceratidae
 Ammonitida - Strigoceratidae