Where: Tunisia (35.1° N, 9.7° E: paleocoordinates 24.1° N, 12.6° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Progracilis ammonoid zone, Khechem El Kelb Formation, Bathonian (168.3 - 166.1 Ma)
• Orbignyi subzone
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal ramp; lithified, argillaceous limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: P. Fauré, Y. Alméras, N. Sekatni, M. S. Arfaoui, and F. Zargouni. 2015. Les brachiopodes du Jurassique inférieur et moyen en Tunisie centrale (Axe Nord-Sud). Un nouveau témoin du domaine paléobiogéographique ouest-téthysien. Geodiversitas 37:31-57 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 169183: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 09.05.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
? Ornithella boxensis Muir-Wood 1936 | |
Sphaeroidothyris elmii Almeras and Moulan 1988 |