Where: Tunisia (35.8° N, 8.4° E: paleocoordinates 20.7° N, 7.7° E)
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Early/Lower Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From an unnamed lithostratigraphic unit. AGE: Early Turonian, on the basis of ammonoid biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From bed 10, as labeled in text-fig. 8 of Chancellor et al. (1994).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified 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 88855: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 22.04.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Neoptychites cephalotus Courtiller 1860 ammonite | |
Kamerunoceras turoniense d'Orbigny 1850 ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |