Also known as Ain Sefra, Monts des Ksour, Site 17

Where: Saïda, Algeria (32.7° N, 0.5° W: paleocoordinates 22.0° N, 1.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tiout Formation, Rhaetian to Rhaetian (208.5 - 199.3 Ma)

• "lower Lias"; date based on presence of Isocyprina (Eotrapezium) aff. germari in a bed 30 cm above

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; dolomite

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression, trace

Collected by J.-P. Bassoulet in 1971

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: J.-P. Bassoullet. 1971. Découverte d'empreintes de pas de Reptiles dans l'Infralias de la région d'Ain-Sefra (Atlas saharien-Algérie) [Discovery of reptile footprints in the Lower Lias of the Ain-Sefra region (Algerian-Saharan Atlas)]. Société Géologique de la France, Comptes Rendus Sommaire des Sciences 1971(1):358-359 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 59340: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 27.03.2006

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