Where: Israel (31.4° N, 34.7° E: paleocoordinates 30.9° N, 33.9° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Tziqlag Formation, Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; grainstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: B. Buchbinder. 1977. Systematics and paleoenvironments of the calcareous algae from the Miocene (Tortonian) Tziqlag Formation, Israel. Micropaleontology 23(4):415-435 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 143307: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 22.04.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Florideophyceae | |
Mesophyllum "sp. A" Lemoine 1930 | |
Ulvophyceae | |
? Halimeda sp. Lamouroux 1812 |