Where: Algeria (31.5° N, 2.5° W: paleocoordinates 18.1° S, 2.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Oued el Hamar 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 134942: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 19.10.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Bothrophyllum proteum Semenoff-Tianchansky 1974 horn coral | |
? Ivanovia sp. Dobrolyubova 1935 horn coral |