RHS4, Jebel Rheouis (Jurassic of Tunisia)

Where: Tunisia (35.0° N, 9.6° E: paleocoordinates 22.7° N, 13.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Micracanthoceras microcanthum ammonoid zone, Sidi Kralif Formation, Late/Upper Tithonian (150.8 - 145.0 Ma)

• Simplisphinctes subzone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified marl

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with pyrite

Collection methods: Repository: probably Université Claude-Bernard, Lyon

Primary reference: R. Enay, M. Boughdiri, and G. Le Hégarat. 1998. Toucasiella gen. nov., Himalayitidae (Ammonitina) nouveau du Tithonien supérieur: origine de Durangites. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences Paris, Sciences de la Terre et des Planètes 327:471-477 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 178264: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.04.2016

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Himalayitidae
Toucasiella gerardi Enay et al. 1998 ammonite