Loc. 7, Draa el Miaad - bed 8 (Cretaceous of Tunisia)

Where: Tunisia (35.8° N, 8.4° E: paleocoordinates 20.7° N, 7.7° E)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From an unnamed lithostratigraphic unit. AGE: Early Turonian, on the basis of ammonoid biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From bed 8, as labeled in text-fig. 8 of Chancellor et al. (1994).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, yellow dolomite

• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Claystone. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of facies description.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the OUM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: Chancellor et al., early 1990's? REPOSITORY:OUM.

Primary reference: G. R. Chancellor, W. J. Kennedy, and J. M. Hancock. 1994. Turonian ammonite faunas from central Tunisia. Palaeontological Association Special Papers in Palaeontology 50:1-118 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 88854: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 22.04.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Comprehensive for ammonoids and bivalves. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication within modern nomenclature and species-resolution identifications.
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Vascoceratidae
Fagesia tevesthensis Peron 1896 ammonite
Fagesia superstes Kossmat 1897 ammonite
Neoptychites cephalotus Courtiller 1860 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Pseudotissotidae
Wrightoceras munieri Pervinquiére 1907 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Pseudotissotiidae
"Choffaticeras meslei" = Choffaticeras (Choffaticeras) meslei Peron 1896 ammonite
Thomasites rollandi Peron 1890 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Collignoniceratidae
Cibolaites sp. Cobban and Hook 1983 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
"Paramammites polymorphus" = Paramammites polymorphum Pervinquiére 1907 ammonite
Kamerunoceras turoniense d'Orbigny 1850 ammonite
Watinoceras sp. Warren 1930 ammonite
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Tylostomatidae
Tylostoma cossoni Thomas and Peron 1889 snail
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae