Djebel Sidi Kralif, Krechem el Kelb, unit 2-B (Jurassic of Tunisia)

Where: Tunisia (35.1° N, 9.7° E: paleocoordinates 24.1° N, 12.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Staa Formation, Bifrons (182.0 - 175.6 Ma)

• Beds are not numbered; this is the second sample from the Toarcian. Sublevisoni subzone.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified limestone

• Limestone interbedded with marl

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Service de la Carte Géologiue de Tunisie

Primary reference: M. Rakús and J. Guex. 2002. Les ammonites du jurassique inférieur et moyen de la dorsal tunisienne. Mémoires de Géologie (Lausanne) 39:1-149 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 170565: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 23.06.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Hildoceratidae
Hildoceras sublevisoni Fucini 1919 ammonite
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Chlamys sp. Röding 1798 scallop
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
"Pseudogibbirhynchia vasconcellosi" = Quadratirhynchia vasconcellosi
"Pseudogibbirhynchia vasconcellosi" = Quadratirhynchia vasconcellosi Choffat 1931
Listed in text only
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
Piarorhynchia juvenis Quenstedt 1852
Listed in text only
Homoeorhynchia meridionalis Deslongchamps 1863
 Rhynchonellida - Basiliolidae
"Stolmorhynchia bouchardi" = Soaresirhynchia bouchardi
"Stolmorhynchia bouchardi" = Soaresirhynchia bouchardi Davidson 1852
Assigned to Pseudogibbirhynchia in figure
 Terebratulida - Lobothyrididae
"Lobothyris jauberti" = Telothyris jauberti, "Lobothyris pyreneica" = Terebratula jauberti pyrenaica, "Lobothyris davidsoni" = Cuersithyris davidsoni
"Lobothyris jauberti" = Telothyris jauberti Deslongchamps 1863
"Lobothyris pyreneica" = Terebratula jauberti pyrenaica Dubar 1931
"Lobothyris davidsoni" = Cuersithyris davidsoni Haime 1855
 Terebratulida - Zeilleriidae
Zeilleria lycetti Davidson 1851