Djebel Bent Saidane east, bed 7 (Jurassic of Tunisia)

Where: Tunisia (36.2° N, 10.0° E: paleocoordinates 25.0° N, 13.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bajocian (170.3 - 168.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, brown, gray, argillaceous limestone

• Gray-brown limestone in decimeter-scale beds, marly

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Service de la Carte Géologiue de Tunisie

Primary reference: M. Rakús and J. Guex. 2002. Les ammonites du jurassique inférieur et moyen de la dorsal tunisienne. Mémoires de Géologie (Lausanne) 39:1-149 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 170550: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 23.06.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Stephanoceratidae
Stephanoceras sp. Waagen 1869 ammonite