Where: Algeria (36.4° N, 1.7° E: paleocoordinates 35.9° N, 0.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• Cartennian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; marl

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L. Moret. 1924. Contribution a l'etude des spongiaires siliceux du Miocene de l'Algerie [Miocene siliceous sponges from Algeria]. Memoires de la Societe Geologique de France 1:1-32 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 114102: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 09.08.2011

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