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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Ampullospira zetes" = Ampullina (Ampullospira), "Ampullospira aff. clio" = Ampullina (Ampullospira), Globularia michelini, Globularia aff. millepora, Globularia zemmourensis, Globularia coxi
"Ampullospira zetes" = Ampullina (Ampullospira) snail
"Ampullospira aff. clio" = Ampullina (Ampullospira) snail
Globularia michelini snail
Globularia zemmourensis Cox 1969 snail
Globularia coxi Stefanini 1939 snail | |
Harpagodes aff. thirriae snail
Quadrinervus elegans Piette 1867 snail
? Dicroloma sp. Gabb 1868 snail | |
"Ovactaeonina custodiorum n. sp." = Colostracon (Ovactaeonina)
"Ovactaeonina custodiorum n. sp." = Colostracon (Ovactaeonina) snail | |
Rhynchonellata | |
? Somalirhynchia sp. Weir 1925 | |
Rhynchonella djeffarae Dubar 1967
Rhynchonella tazerdunensis Dubar 1967 | |
Bihenithyris weiri Muir-Wood 1935 | |
Zeilleria hararina Jaboli 1959 |