Beni Bahdel, Koudiat-el-Halfa (Monts de Rhar Roubane) (Jurassic to of Algeria)

Where: Algeria (34.7° N, 1.5° W: paleocoordinates 26.4° N, 2.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Zailou Formation, Raricostatum to Raricostatum (196.5 - 183.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified 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 159133: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 27.07.2014

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Spiriferinidae
Spiriferina betacalcis Quenstedt 1858