Poste optique (Tataouine) (Jurassic to of Tunisia)

Where: Tunisia (32.9° N, 10.5° E: paleocoordinates 21.4° N, 11.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tataouine Formation, Callovian to Callovian (166.1 - 152.1 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified limestone and lithified marl

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Primary reference: G. Dubar. 1967. Brachiopodes Jurassiques du Sahara Tunisien [Jurassic brachiopods from the Tunisian Sahara]. Annales de Paleontologie, Invertebres 53:1-71 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 99125: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 28.10.2010

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Architaenioglossa - Ampullinidae
"Ampullospira zetes" = Ampullina (Ampullospira) snail
"Ampullospira aff. clio" = Ampullina (Ampullospira) snail
Globularia zemmourensis Cox 1969 snail
Globularia coxi Stefanini 1939 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae
Quadrinervus elegans Piette 1867 snail
? Dicroloma sp. Gabb 1868 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Acteoninidae
"Ovactaeonina custodiorum n. sp." = Colostracon (Ovactaeonina)
"Ovactaeonina custodiorum n. sp." = Colostracon (Ovactaeonina) snail
 Pseudomelanoidea - Pseudomelaniidae
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
 Terebratulida - Loboidothyrididae
Bihenithyris weiri Muir-Wood 1935
 Terebratulida - Terebratulidae
Terebratula sp. Müller 1776
Terebratula bussoni Dubar 1967
 Terebratulida - Zeilleriidae
Zeilleria hararina Jaboli 1959