Where: Algeria (34.9° N, 1.0° W: paleocoordinates 26.3° N, 4.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Argiles de Lamoriciere Formation, Late/Upper Berriasian (145.0 - 140.2 Ma)
• Boissieri zone, Picteti subzone
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified, sandy limestone and lithified marl
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: M. Benest, D. Gaspard, and M. Ghali. 1996. Les brachiopodes de l'avant-pays ouest-algerien lors de la phase transgressive maximale du Berriasien superieur; systematique, environnement, paleogeographie [The brachiopods of the Western-Algerian foreland during the maximum transgressive interval of Upper Berriasian age; systematics, environment and palaeogeography]. GĂ©obios 29(1):13-34 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 64322: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 06.09.2006, edited by Loic Villier
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Sellithyris sella Sowerby 1823 | |
Psilothyris sp. Cooper 1955 | |
Asteroidea | |
Prothrissacanthias africanus n. gen. n. sp.
Prothrissacanthias africanus n. gen. n. sp. Villier et al. 2007 sea star | |
Echinoidea | |
Toxaster granosus heart urchin |