Gour Laoud, base of Lower Sandstones (Triassic to of Algeria)

Where: Illizi, Algeria (27.8° N, 9.7° E: paleocoordinates 9.3° S, 14.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Sandstone Member (Lower Zarzaïtine Formation), Spathian to Spathian (251.3 - 242.0 Ma)

• Assemblage is from the base of the Lower Sandstone of the Lower Zarzaïtine. Dating of the occurrences is based upon vertebrate biostratigraphy, particularly comparisons to the Moenkopi Formation of Arizona

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Busson; reposited in the MNHN

Collection methods: surface (float),

Primary reference: N.-E. Jalil. 1999. Continental Permian and Triassic vertebrate localities from Algeria and Morocco and their stratigraphical correlations. Journal of African Earth Sciences 29(1):219-226 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 107215: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 03.04.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Trematosauridae
Lonchorhynchinae indet. Säve-Söderbergh 1935 tetrapod
ZAR 3, 4, fragments of a rostrum
 Temnospondyli - Brachyopidae
? Brachyopidae indet. Broom 1915 tetrapod
ZAR 55, 56, skull roof fragments, ZAR 65-67, isolated teeth