Where: Algeria (35.8° N, 0.8° E: paleocoordinates 35.5° N, 0.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Sarhli Member, Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)
• The collection is from the Meroui stage, which has a thickness of 370 m at Chabet Seradja. The bulk of the section is bluish marl, overlying a variable basal sandy member 40 m thick. The collection is derived from the top of the mar. The Tellian group corresponds to the upper half or third of the Miocene. Faunal correlations sugesst it corresponds to Helvetian and Tortonian of Europe, but does include younger facies, which may be late Miocene and Pliocene. The Tellian Group is seperated into three lithologic subdivisions, the Meroui, Beida, and Mellah stages.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shelly/skeletal, blue marl
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Unknown collector, probably the author.
Primary reference: R. V. Anderson. 1936. Geology of the Coastal Atlas of western Algeria. Geological Society of America Memoir 4:1-484 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/S. Ávila]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 42824: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 05.08.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Amusium sp. Röding 1798 scallop | |
Venus sp. Linnaeus 1758 venus clam | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
Natica sp. Scopoli 1777 moon snail | |
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell |