Where: Algeria (36.4° N, 4.2° E: paleocoordinates 26.6° N, 8.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Dorsale Calcaire Group, Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)
• pebbles included in Upper Paleogene conglomerates
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified wackestone and lithified grainstone
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Collection methods: peel or thin section,
Primary reference: Z. Kotanski, E. Morycowa, B. Peybernes and M. Durand-Delga. 1988. Indices de l'existence d'une plate-forme carbonatee a madreporaires, algues et grands foraminiferes benthiques du Malm, sur les zones internes au Nord de la Dorsale calcaire du Djurdjura (Algerie) [Reconstitution of a Malmian coral-, algae-, and larger foraminifer- bearing carbonate platform in the internal zone of the northern Dorsale Calcaire from Djurdjura, Algeria]. Comptes rendus de l'Academie des Sciences, Serie 2 307:1809-1818 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 85907: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 19.01.2009, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling
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Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Anthozoa | |
Myriophyllia rastellina Michelin 1843 stony coral | |
"Antiguastrea" flandrini Morycowa 1988 stony coral | |
Cyanophyceae | |
Cayeuxia sp. Frollo 1938 | |
Chlorophyceae | |
Macroporella cf. espichelensis, Salpingoporella johnsoni, Salpingoporella pygmaea, Salpingoporella annulata
Salpingoporella pygmaea Gumbel 1891
Salpingoporella annulata Carozzi 1954 | |
Campbelliella striata Bernier 1974 | |
Acicularia sp. d'Archiac 1843 | |
Ulvophyceae | |
? Halimeda sp. Lamouroux 1812 | |
Juraella bifurcata Bernier 1984 | |
Thaumatoporella parvovesiculifera Raineri 1922 | |
Foraminifera | |
"Conicokurnubia" sp. Septfontaine 1988 | |
"Valvulina aff. lugeoni" = Redmondoides lugeoni
"Valvulina aff. lugeoni" = Redmondoides lugeoni Septfontaine 1977 | |
Pseudocyclammina lituus Yokoyama 1890 | |
Placopsilina sp. d'Orbigny 1850 | |
? Aulotortus sp. Weynschenk 1956 | |
Nodosariata | |
Foraminifera | |
Globothalamea | |
"Conicospirillina basiliensis" = Mohlerina basiliensis
"Conicospirillina basiliensis" = Mohlerina basiliensis Mohler 1938 |