GaC 32, Galeries section, Kef Sidi Amar (Ouarsenis) (Jurassic to of Algeria)

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

• oolitic and bioclastic limestones

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
 Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
Gibbirhynchia curviceps Quenstedt 1852
 Rhynchonellida - Wellerellidae
Cirpa fronto Quenstedt 1871
 Terebratulida - Zeilleriidae
Zeilleria (Zeilleria) darwini Eudes-Deslongchamps 1863