Where: Algeria (31.4° N, 2.8° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 26.0° S, 1.8° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Hassi Kerma Formation, Bashkirian (323.2 - 315.2 Ma)
• Lower Bashkirian
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone and lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Marie Legrand-Blain
Collection methods: peel or thin section,
Primary reference: M. Aretz. 2011. Corals from the Carboniferous of the central Sahara (Algeria): the collection "Marie Legrand-Blain". Geodiversitas 33(4):581-624 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 134938: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 18.10.2012
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Koninckophyllum interruptum Thomson and Nicholson 1876 horn coral | |
Turbinatocaninia sp. Dobrolyubova 1970 horn coral |