Where: Algeria (31.3° N, 1.6° W: paleocoordinates 21.0° S, 2.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: El Guelmouna Formation, Serpukhovian (330.9 - 323.2 Ma)

• Lower Serpukhovian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone and lithified shale

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 134939: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 18.10.2012

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