Where: Algeria (27.0° N, 9.6° E: paleocoordinates 29.8° S, 8.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Oued Oubarakat Formation, Serpukhovian (330.9 - 323.2 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; 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 135341: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 22.10.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Palaeosmilia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 horn coral |