Ahmar Khaddou (Cretaceous to of Algeria)

Where: Algeria (35.0° N, 6.2° E: paleocoordinates 20.7° N, 5.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Turonian to Late/Upper Turonian (93.5 - 85.8 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone and lithified marl

• interval of alternating marly limestone and marl

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: F. Chikhi-Aouimeur. 2007. Late Cretaceous hippuritids of Algeria: a critical review of bibliographic data. In R. W. Scott (ed.), Cretaceous rudists and carbonate platforms: environmental feedback, SEPM Special Publication 87:213-220 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 84753: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 10.11.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Hippuritidae
Hippurites resectus, Hippurites socialis, Hippurites sp., Vaccinites praegiganteus
Hippurites sp. Lamarck 1801 rudist
 Hippuritida - Plagioptychidae
Plagioptychus sp.
Plagioptychus sp. Matheron 1842 rudist
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Durania cornupastoris
Durania cornupastoris Des Moulins 1826 rudist