El Kef, El-Kef-23.5 (Cretaceous of Tunisia)
Where: Tunisia (36.2° N, 8.7° E: paleocoordinates 25.1° N, 7.4° E)
When: El Haria Formation, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; marl
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: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 57339: authorized by Cinzia Cervato, entered by Cinzia Cervato on 13.12.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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Nodosariata | |
Pseudonodosaria manifesta, Pseudonodosaria obesa, Lagena hispida, Dentalina alternata, Dentalina gracilis, Dentalina stephensoni, Dentalina legumen, Astacolus sp.
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Saracenaria navicula, Saracenaria triangularis, Lenticulina modesta, "Lenticulina muensteri" = Lenticulina munsteri, Palmula primitiva
"Lenticulina muensteri" = Lenticulina munsteri Roemer 1839 | |
Foraminifera | |
Lingulinopsis sp. Reuss 1860 | |
Globothalamea | |
Gyroidina planulata Cushman and Renz 1941 | |
Foraminifera | |