Hameimat South section, lower Unit C (Cretaceous of Algeria)

Where: Algeria (35.6° N, 8.1° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 25.6° N, 19.8° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Fahdene Formation, Late/Upper Cenomanian (100.5 - 93.9 Ma)

• Calycoceras naviculare and Metoicoceras geslinianum zones

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: poorly lithified marl

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: Repository: Laboratory of Geodynamics, Engineering Geology and Planetology of the University of Science and Technology Houari Boumediene (USTHB; Algiers, Algeria).

Primary reference: S. Mendir, S. Salmi-Laouar, G. M. El Qot, W. Ayoub-Hannaa, and B. Ferré. 2021. Cenomanian (Upper Cretaceous) bivalves from the Hameimat Massifs, north of Tebessa, Algeria: Systematics, biostratigraphy, palaeoecological and taphonomical remarks. Annales de Paléontologie 107(102471) [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 220825: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.06.2021

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
Aenona cenomanensis Abbass 1962 tellin clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Granocardium sp. Gabb 1869 cockle
? Granocardium sp. Gabb 1869 cockle
 Cardiida - Glossidae
Glossus aquilinus Coquand 1862 clam
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Radiolites cf. sauvagesi d'Hombres-Firmas 1838 rudist
 Trigoniida - Megatrigonioidae
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Lopha syphax Coquand 1854 oyster
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Ilymatogyra africana Lamarck 1801 oyster
Costagyra olisiponensis Sharpe 1850 oyster
Ceratostreon flabellatum Goldfuss 1833 oyster
Gyrostrea delettrei Coquand 1862 oyster
 Pectinida - Plicatulidae
Plicatula (Plicatula) fourneli Coquand 1862 scallop