Where: Tunisia (35.1° N, 9.7° E: paleocoordinates 24.1° N, 12.5° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Châabet El Attaris Formation, Bifrons (182.0 - 175.6 Ma)
• Sublevisoni subzone
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore ramp; lithified, argillaceous lime mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: P. Fauré, Y. Alméras, N. Sekatni, M. S. Arfaoui, and F. Zargouni. 2015. Les brachiopodes du Jurassique inférieur et moyen en Tunisie centrale (Axe Nord-Sud). Un nouveau témoin du domaine paléobiogéographique ouest-téthysien. Geodiversitas 37:31-57 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 169174: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 09.05.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Telothyris jauberti Deslongchamps 1863 | |
Pseudogibbirhynchia praedifformis Flamand 1911 | |
Quadratirhynchia vasconcellosi Choffat 1931 | |
Cephalopoda | |
Hildoceras cf. sublevisoni Fucini 1919 ammonite
Mercaticeras sp. ammonite |