Where: Tunisia (35.5° N, 8.9° E: paleocoordinates 20.4° N, 8.0° 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 2nd fossiliferous bed (bottom to top) in text-fig. 7 of Chancellor et al. (1994).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, nodular limestone
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 88851: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 22.04.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Mammites nodosoides Schlüter 1871 ammonite
Kamerunoceras turoniense d'Orbigny 1850 ammonite |