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
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 | |
Hildoceras sublevisoni Fucini 1919 ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
Chlamys sp. Röding 1798 scallop | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Pseudogibbirhynchia vasconcellosi" = Quadratirhynchia vasconcellosi
"Pseudogibbirhynchia vasconcellosi" = Quadratirhynchia vasconcellosi Choffat 1931 Listed in text only
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Homoeorhynchia meridionalis Deslongchamps 1863 | |
"Stolmorhynchia bouchardi" = Soaresirhynchia bouchardi
"Stolmorhynchia bouchardi" = Soaresirhynchia bouchardi Davidson 1852 Assigned to Pseudogibbirhynchia in figure
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"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 | |
Zeilleria lycetti Davidson 1851 |