Where: Taţāwīn, Tunisia (33.0° N, 10.5° E: paleocoordinates 21.5° N, 11.6° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Ghoumrassen Member (Tataouine Formation), Callovian (166.1 - 163.5 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; packstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: specimens are housed in the Institut für Paläontologie, Würzburg University
Primary reference: D. K. Pandey and F. T. Fürsich. 2005. Jurassic corals from the southern Tunisia. Zitteliana (A45)3-34 [W. Kiessling/A. Girndt]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 83349: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Antje Girndt on 19.08.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Cladophyllia minor Beauvais 1975 stony coral | |
Enallhelia elegans Münster 1829 stony coral | |
"Amphiastraea piriformis" = Amphiastrea piriformis
"Amphiastraea piriformis" = Amphiastrea piriformis Gregory 1900 stony coral | |
"Isastrea parva" = Melikerona parva
"Isastrea parva" = Melikerona parva Gregory 1900 stony coral | |
Chomatoseris iranensis Flügel 1966 stony coral |