Also known as El Eulma Basin
Where: Setif, Algeria (36.0° N, 5.7° E: paleocoordinates 35.8° N, 5.4° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
• Terrestrial sequence begins with a thick gypsum bed (60 meters) which progresses into blue clays with sandstone lenses. The fossil locality is located at the base of the blue clays and is resting on a sandstone bank.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; poorly lithified, fine-grained, blue claystone and poorly lithified, lenticular sandstone
Size class: microfossils
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
• Collection size unknown.
Primary reference: J. J. Jaeger. 1977. Les rongeurs du miocene moyen et superieur du Maghreb. Palaeovertebrata 8(1):1-166 [A. Behrensmeyer/S. Cote/S. Cote]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 35363: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Suzanne Cote on 06.12.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Galerix sp. Pomel 1848 hedgehog | |
Irhoudia sp. Jaeger 1971 gundi | |
Zramys cf. haichai mouse | |
Progonomys cf. cathalai Schaub 1938 mouse | |
Atlantoxerus sp. Major 1893 squirrel |