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: Late/Upper Berriasian (145.0 - 140.2 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified wackestone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

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]. Géobios 29(1):13-34 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 64331: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 06.09.2006

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