Where: Tunisia (36.5° N, 10.1° E: paleocoordinates 24.4° N, 10.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Oust Formation, Obtusum (196.5 - 189.6 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Repository: Service de la Carte Géologiue de Tunisie
Primary reference: M. Rakús and J. Guex. 2002. Les ammonites du jurassique inférieur et moyen de la dorsal tunisienne. Mémoires de Géologie (Lausanne) 39:1-149 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 170504: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.06.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Paracymbites dennyiformis Rakús and Guex 2002 ammonite | |
Arnioceras fieldingiceroides Dommergues and Faure 1986 ammonite
? Protocymbites azzouzi Rakús and Guex 2002 ammonite | |
Epophioceras longicella Quenstedt 1885 ammonite | |
Bouhamidoceras zizense Dubar 1961 ammonite | |
Partschiceras tenuistriatum Meneghini 1868 ammonite |