Djebel Bent Saidane, Dubar section, bed 4 (Jurassic of Tunisia)

Where: Tunisia (36.2° N, 10.0° E: paleocoordinates 24.5° N, 11.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Oust Formation, Early/Lower Pliensbachian (189.6 - 183.0 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 170527: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 23.06.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Polymorphitidae
Gemmellaroceras sp. Hyatt 1900 ammonite
 Phylloceratida - Juraphyllitidae
Juraphyllites sp. Müller 1939 ammonite
 Nautilida - Cenoceratidae
Cenoceras sp. Hyatt 1884 nautiloid