Ouled Mimoun, Bed 9, Tlemcen Mountains, NW Algeria: Late Berriasian, Algeria

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Toxasteridae
Toxaster granosus
Asteroidea - Paxillosida - Astropectinidae
Prothrissacanthias africanus n. gen., n. sp. Villier et al. 2007
Villier et al. 2007 1 specimen
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Laqueidae
Psilothyris sp. Cooper 1955
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Sellithyrididae
Moutonithyris sp.
Sellithyris sella (Sowerby 1823)
see common names

Geography
Country:Algeria
Coordinates: 34.9° North, 1.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:26.3° North, 4.4° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Early Cretaceous
Stage: Berriasian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 1
Key time interval: Late Berriasian
Age range of interval: 140.6 - 139.8 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Argiles de Lamoriciere
Local section:Ouled Mimoun Local bed:9
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Boissieri zone, Picteti subzone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified sandy "limestone"
Secondary lithology: lithified marl
Environment:deep subtidal shelf
Glacial or sequence phase:transgressive
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:ammonites reported to be present
Metadata
Database number:64322
Authorizer:W. Kiessling, L. Villier Enterer:U. Merkel, L. Villier
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-09-06 07:18:10 Last modified:2006-09-06 10:18:10
Access level:the public Released:2006-09-06 07:18:09
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
18551. M. Benest, D. Gaspard, and M. Ghali. 1996. Les brachiopodes de l'avant-pays ouest-algerien lors de la phase transgressive maximale du Berriasien superieur; systematique, environnement, paleogeographie [The brachiopods of the Western-Algerian foreland during the maximum transgressive interval of Upper Berriasian age; systematics, environment and palaeogeography]. Géobios 29(1):13-34 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

26803 L. Villier, G. Breton, and F. Atrops. 2007. Une nouvelle étoile de mer (Prothrissacanthias africanus gen. nov. sp. nov.) du Berriasien d’Algérie. Revue de Paléobiologie 26(2):413-424 [L. Villier/L. Villier]