Where: Algeria (34.9° N, 1.0° W: paleocoordinates 26.3° N, 4.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Argiles de Lamoriciere Formation, Middle Berriasian (145.0 - 140.2 Ma)
• 1 m thick
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified packstone and lithified grainstone
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
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 64315: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 06.09.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Demospongiae | |
Cladocoropsis cf. mirabilis Felix 1907 demosponge | |
Foraminifera | |
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Chlorophyceae | |
Acicularia sp. d'Archiac 1843 |