Jebel el Kebar, rudist mounds: Late/Upper Campanian, Tunisia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Echinoidea
- Spatangoida
- Micrasteridae
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Plesiaster sp.
Pomel 1883
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Bivalvia
- Hippuritida
- Caprinidae
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Sabinia sp.
Parona 1908
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Bivalvia
- Hippuritida
- Radiolitidae
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Rajka sp.
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Joufia sp.
Boehm 1897
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Pseudopolyconites sp.
Milovanovic 1935
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Bivalvia
- Hippuritida
- Hippuritidae
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Hippurites colliciatus
Woodward 1855
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Vaccinites braciensis
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Pironaea cf. corrugata
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Pironaea cf. timacensis
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
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Scleractinia indet.
Bourne 1900
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Geography
| Country: | Tunisia |
| Coordinates: | 34.9° North, 9.4° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 21.6° North, 9.2° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Campanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 7 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Campanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Merfeg |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified packstone |
| Secondary lithology: | lithified wackestone |
| Lithology description: one lenticular and two biostromal rudist member | |
| Environment: | reef, buildup or bioherm |
Taphonomy
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Reef 1179 | ||
| Database number: | 74533 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | U. Merkel |
| Modifier: | U. Merkel | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-08-10 01:03:31 | Last modified: | 2007-08-10 04:04:57 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-08-10 01:03:31 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 25013. | M. H. Negra, B. H. Purser, and A. M'Rabet. 1995. Sedimentation, diagenesis and syntectonic erosion of Upper Cretaceous rudist mounds in central Tunisia. in C. L. V. Monty, D. W. J. Bosence, P. H. Bridges and B. R. Pratt, eds., Carbonate mud-mounds. Special Publication of the International Association of Sedimentologists 23:401-419 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] |