Where: Algeria (35.3° N, 0.2° E: paleocoordinates 26.1° N, 5.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Argiles de Ghriss Formation, Late/Upper Berriasian (145.0 - 140.2 Ma)
• Boissieri zone, Picteti subzone
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified marl
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: 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]. GĂ©obios 29(1):13-34 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 64365: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 07.09.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Ostracoda | |
Cytherella sp. Jones 1849 ostracod | |
Asciocythere sp. ostracod
Schuleridea sp. Swartz and Swain 1946 ostracod | |
Protocythere mazenoti ostracod | |
Metacytheropteron sp. ostracod |