Where: Tunisia (32.6° N, 10.3° E: paleocoordinates 21.1° N, 11.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Tataouine Formation, Early/Lower Callovian (164.7 - 161.2 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone and lithified marl
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast
Primary reference: L. R. Cox. 1969. Gasteropodes Jurassiques du Sud-Est Tunisien [Jurassic gastropods from SE Tunisia]. Annales de Paleontologie, Invertebres 55(2):241-268 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 100389: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 09.12.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Zygopleura tunisiensis n. sp.
Zygopleura tunisiensis n. sp. Cox 1969 snail | |
Ataphrus labadyei d'Archiac 1850 snail | |
Discohelix tunisiensis n. sp.
Discohelix tunisiensis n. sp. Cox 1969 snail | |
Globularia michelini, "Ampullospira stricklandi" = Ampullina (Ampullospira)
Globularia michelini snail
"Ampullospira stricklandi" = Ampullina (Ampullospira) snail | |
Exelissa strangulata, "Procerithium (Xystrella) protortile" = Cryptaulax protortile
Exelissa strangulata snail
"Procerithium (Xystrella) protortile" = Cryptaulax protortile Cox 1965 snail | |
? Dicroloma sp. Gabb 1868 snail
Quadrinervus elegans Piette 1867 snail |