Where: Algeria (35.9° N, 1.6° E: paleocoordinates 26.4° N, 0.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Kef Sidi Amar Formation, Raricostatum to Raricostatum (196.5 - 183.0 Ma)
• Late Sinemurian (Raricostatum)-Early Pliensbachian (Aenigmaticum) age.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, ooidal, shelly/skeletal limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Repository: U.F.R. des Sciences de la Terre, Université Claude Bernard, Lyon l.
Primary reference: Y. Alméras, S. Elmi, and P. Fauré. 2007. Les brachiopods liasiques d'Algérie occidentale. Documents des Laboratoires de Géologie de la Faculté des Sciences de Lyon 163:1-241 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 159131: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 27.07.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Gibbirhynchia curviceps Quenstedt 1852 | |
Cirpa fronto Quenstedt 1871 | |
Zeilleria (Zeilleria) darwini Eudes-Deslongchamps 1863
Zeilleria (Zeilleria) cossae Gemmellaro 1878 |