Jebel Oust East, Roman quarry, bed 5 (Jurassic of Tunisia)

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
 Ammonitida - Oxynoticeratidae
Paracymbites dennyiformis Rakús and Guex 2002 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Arietitidae
Arnioceras fieldingiceroides Dommergues and Faure 1986 ammonite
? Protocymbites azzouzi Rakús and Guex 2002 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Asteroceratidae
Epophioceras longicella Quenstedt 1885 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Lytoceratidae
Bouhamidoceras zizense Dubar 1961 ammonite
 Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
Partschiceras tenuistriatum Meneghini 1868 ammonite