Bouarif, Unit B (Cretaceous of Algeria)

Where: Batna, Algeria (36.1° N, 4.4° E: paleocoordinates 20.5° N, 4.8° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Marnes de Smail Formation, Middle Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; marl

• "deep to shallow, muddy bottom environments of the distal platform with low sedimentation rate"
• "The formation consists mainly of marls"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: R. Aouissi, G. M. El Qot, S. Salmi-Laouar, C. Gomez-Espinosa, and B. E. Buitron-Sanchez. 2024. Cenomanian gastropods of Bellezma-Aures mountains (Batna, NE Algeria): Taxonomy, palaeoecology and palaeobiogeography. Journal of African Earth Sciences 209:105100 [W. Kiessling/A. Watson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 234824: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Alissa Watson on 18.05.2024

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Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Procerithiidae
Cimolithium tenouklense
 Sorbeoconcha - Campanilidae
Campanile ganesha
 Sorbeoconcha - Tylostomatidae
Pterodonta deffisi, Pterodonta ovata, Tylostoma cossoni
Tylostoma cossoni Thomas and Peron 1889 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae
Aporrhais dutrugei
Aporrhais dutrugei Coquand 1862 snail