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 near the top of the section in blue clays and is covered by a sandstone bed several meters thick.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; poorly lithified, fine-grained, blue claystone and poorly lithified sandstone

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: bulk,

• 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 35364: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Suzanne Cote on 06.12.2003

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