Loc. 1, Sif et Tella, Djebel Mrhila - bed 4 (Cretaceous of Tunisia)

Where: Tunisia (35.4° N, 9.2° E: paleocoordinates 20.2° N, 8.2° E)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mammites nodosoides ammonoid zone, Kef Formation, Early/Lower Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From an unnamed lithostratigraphic unit. AGE: Early Turonian, on the basis of ammonoid biostratigraphy; Mammites nodosoides zone. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From the 4th fossiliferous bed (bottom to top) in text-fig. 5 of Chancellor et al. (1994).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, nodular, gray, blue, calcareous claystone

• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Blue-grey clays with calcareous nodules. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of facies description.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the OUM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: Chancellor et al., early 1990's? REPOSITORY:OUM.

Primary reference: G. R. Chancellor, W. J. Kennedy, and J. M. Hancock. 1994. Turonian ammonite faunas from central Tunisia. Palaeontological Association Special Papers in Palaeontology 50:1-118 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 88844: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 22.04.2009

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Comprehensive for ammonoids and bivalves. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication within modern nomenclature and species-resolution identifications.
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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Mammites nodosoides
Mammites nodosoides Schlüter 1871 ammonite