Djebel Ben Merezi, Saida Mountains, Bed 8, NW Algeria (Cretaceous of Algeria)

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

• green marls

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
 Platycopida - Cytherellidae
Cytherella sp. Jones 1849 ostracod
 Podocopida - Cytherideidae
Schuleridea sp. Swartz and Swain 1946 ostracod
 Podocopida - Cytherettidae
 Podocopida - Cytheruridae