Djebel Zaghouan, Path to Poste Optique, bed 17 (Jurassic of Tunisia)

Where: Tunisia (36.4° N, 10.1° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 26.2° N, 21.5° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Schopeni ammonoid zone, Staa Formation, Spinatum (192.9 - 184.2 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, argillaceous 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 170577: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 23.06.2015

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Hildoceratidae
Lioceratoides grecoi Fucini 1901 ammonite
"Lioceratoides serotinum" = Lioceratoides serotinus Bettoni 1900 ammonite