Guern er Rhezal: Early Cenomanian, Tunisia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
Phylloceras (Hypophylloceras) pseudolateumbilicatum
Kennedy 2020
Phylloceras (Hypophylloceras) ellipticum (Kossmat 1895)
Kennedy 2020
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Tetragonitidae
Tetragonites informal sp. juv. (Kossmat 1895)
Kennedy 2020
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Forbesiceratidae
Forbesiceras obtectum (Sharpe 1853)
Kennedy 2020
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Graysonites cherbensis
Kennedy 2020
Submantelliceras aumalense
Kennedy 2020
Acanthoceras martimpreyi
Pervinquière 1907
from Pervinquière 1907; re-ided as Submantelliceras sp. juv.
    = Submantelliceras informal sp. juv.
Kennedy 2020
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Brancoceratidae
Algericeras (Algericeras) proratum (Coquand 1879)
Kennedy 2020
Algericeras (Algericeras) boghariense (Coquand 1879)
Kennedy 2020
Algericeras (Algericeras) boghariense boghariense
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Lyelliceratidae
Stoliczkaia (Shumarinaia) africana (Pervinquière 1907)
Kennedy 2020
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Flickiidae
Flickia simplex Pervinquière 1907
Neosaynoceras gazellae (Pervinquière 1907)
Kennedy 2020
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
Puzosia (Puzosia) mayoriana (d'Orbigny 1841)
Kennedy 2020
? Puzosia (Latidorsella) paronae (Kilian 1900)
Pervinquière 1907
from Pervinquière 1907; re-ided as Desmoceras (Desmoceras)
    = Desmoceras (Desmoceras) informal sp. juv. Zittel 1884
Kennedy 2020
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Anisoceratidae
Anisoceras leckenbyi
Kennedy 2020
Anisoceras cf. plicatile (Sowerby 1819)
Kennedy 2020
see common names

Geography
Country:Tunisia
Coordinates: 36.2° North, 9.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:19.3° North, 9.2° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Cenomanian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 5
Key time interval: Early Cenomanian
Age range of interval: 100.5 - 93.9 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Zebbag
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: "Vraconnien" or "Vraconniene"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified marl
Lithology description: "Pelagic marl" in Kennedy & Wright (1984)
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:MNHN
Metadata
Database number:178213
Authorizer:M. Clapham, P. Wagner Enterer:M. Clapham, P. Wagner
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2016-04-27 01:18:06 Last modified:2021-01-25 18:35:44
Access level:the public Released:2016-04-27 01:18:06
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

36219. C. W. Wright and W. J. Kennedy. 1979. Origin and evolution of the Cretaceous micromorph ammonite family Flickiidae. Palaeontology 22:685-704 [L. Bulot/L. Bulot/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

75317 W. J. Kennedy. 2020. Upper Albian, Cenomanian and Upper Turonian ammonite faunas from the Fahdène Formation of Central Tunisia and correlatives in northern Algeria. Acta Geologica Polonica 70(2):147-272 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]
35992fossil record L. Pervinquière. 1907. Etudes de paléontologie tunisienne. 1. Céphalopodes des terrains secondaires. Carte Géologique de la Tunisie 1-438 [L. Bulot/L. Bulot/P. Wagner]