El Hamma du Djerid: Late/Upper Miocene, Tunisia
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Geography
| Country: | Tunisia | State/province: | Gafsa |
| Coordinates: | 34.0° North, 8.0° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 33.8° North, 7.7° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Miocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 11.63000 - 5.33300 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Beglia | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: No information available on location of El Hamma du Djerid within the Beglia Formation. The Beglia Formation is thought to span the earliest Late Miocene (Vindobonian) from approximately 12.5-9.5 Ma. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | fine poorly lithified sandy sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: Two fossiliferous levels are known in the Beglia Formation- white sands (inferior) and yellow sands (superior). It is not clear from which level the El Hamma du Djerid collection derives | |
| Environment: | fluvial-lacustrine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial orientation: | random |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | bulk,surface (float),field collection |
| Collection size: | 30 specimens |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: Abundance data not complete. Collection size is a minimum value | |
| Taxonomic list comments:Many identifications are old and probably in need of updating. | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Nefta, Beglia | ||
| Database number: | 35276 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Behrensmeyer | Enterer: | S. Cote |
| Modifier: | S. Cote | ||
| Created: | 2003-11-23 11:24:10 | Last modified: | 2003-11-23 13:27:40 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2003-11-23 11:24:10 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 9488. | ETE | M. Boule. 1910. Sur quelques Vertebres fossils du Sud de la Tunisie. Comptes Rendus de la societe geologique de France 50 [A. Behrensmeyer/S. Cote/S. Cote] |
Secondary references:
| 9170 | C. Arambourg. 1959. Vertébrés continentaux du Miocène supérieur de l'afrique du nord. Publications du Service de la Carte Géologique de l'Algérie. Mémoire No. 4. 1-159 [A. Behrensmeyer/S. Cote/S. Cote] | |
| 9487 | ETE | P. Robinson and C. C. Black. 1969. Note preliminaire sur les vertebres fossiles du Vinodobonien (formation Beglia), du Bled Douarah, Gouvernorat de Gafsa, Tunisie. Notes du Service Geologique Tunisie. Traveaux de Geologie Tunisienne 31(11):67-70 [A. Behrensmeyer/S. Cote/S. Cote] |