Where: Jeffara, Tunisia (33.0° N, 10.8° E: paleocoordinates 4.3° S, 15.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Grès de Kirchaou Formation, Ladinian (242.0 - 237.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils
Primary reference: F. Kamoun, B. Peybernes, M. Montacer, M. Ben Youssef, A. Trigui and M. Ghanmi. 1994. Application des concepts de la stratigraphie sequentielle aux series triasiques du Sud de la Tunisie. Nouvelles donnees stratigraphiques et micropaleontologiques. Proceedings of the 4th Tunisian Petroleum Exploration Conference 74:213-235 [D. Bottjer/C. Powers/C. Jamet]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 44741: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Catherine Powers on 16.09.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Ptychites eusomus, "Ptychites flexuosus" = Flexoptychites flexuosus
Ptychites eusomus Beyrich 1865 ceratite
"Ptychites flexuosus" = Flexoptychites flexuosus von Mojsisovics 1882 ceratite | |
"Nautilus klipsteini" = Germanonautilus klipsteini, "Nautilus cassianus" = Germanonautilus cassianus
"Nautilus klipsteini" = Germanonautilus klipsteini von Mojsisovics 1882
"Nautilus cassianus" = Germanonautilus cassianus von Mojsisovics 1882 | |
Foraminifera | |
Aciculella sp. Vialov 1968 | |
Triadodiscus eomesozoicus Oberhauser 1957 | |
Nodosariata | |
Duostominidae indet. Brotzen 1963 | |
Foraminifera | |