El Kef bottom 5-10m (Cretaceous of Tunisia)

Where: Tunisia (36.2° N, 8.7° E: paleocoordinates 22.9° N, 8.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, gray, blue, calcareous shale and lithified, yellow, cherty/siliceous limestone

• blue-grey fissile marly shale ... which contains several resistant layers of yellow marly limestones

Primary reference: L. Li, G. Keller and W. Stinnesbeck. 1999. The Late Campian and Maastrichtian in northwestern Tunisia: palaeoenvironmental inferences from lithology, macrofauna and benthic formainifera. Cretaceous Research 20:231-252 [L. Ivany/P. Wall/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 47107: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 08.02.2005

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Taxonomic list

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Echinoidea
 Irregularia -
Holectypoida indet.
Holectypoida indet. Duncan 1889 sea urchin
 Holasteroida - Holasteridae
Stegaster cf. guilleri
 Irregularia -
Spatangoida indet.
Spatangoida indet. Agassiz 1840 heart urchin
 Spatangoida - Micrasteridae
Micraster sp.
Micraster sp. Agassiz 1836 heart urchin
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus sp.
Inoceramus sp. Sowerby 1814 clam