Djebel Bent Saidane east, bed 3: Margaritatus, Tunisia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Hildoceratidae
Arieticeras sp. Seguenza 1885
Protogrammoceras kurrianum (Oppel 1862)
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Lytoceratidae
Zaghouanites bettonii (Fucini 1920)
(2 measurements)
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Dactylioceratidae
Aveyroniceras cf. medolense (Hauer 1861)
(2 measurements)
Bettoniceras aff. mortilleti
Bettoniceras sp. Wiedenmayer 1977
see common names

Geography
Country:Tunisia
Coordinates: 36.2° North, 10.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:24.5° North, 11.7° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Early/Lower Jurassic
Stage:Pliensbachian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 2
Key time interval:Margaritatus Ammonoid zone: Algovianum
Age range of interval:192.90000 - 184.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Staa
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal,gray lithified "limestone"
Lithology description: Dark gray crinoidal limestone
Environment:open shallow subtidal
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: Service de la Carte Géologiue de Tunisie
Metadata
Database number:170547
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2015-06-23 19:48:45 Last modified:2015-06-23 19:48:45
Access level:the public Released:2015-06-23 19:48:45
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

55572. M. Rakús and J. Guex. 2002. Les ammonites du jurassique inférieur et moyen de la dorsal tunisienne. Mémoires de Géologie (Lausanne) 39:1-149 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]