Where: Algeria (35.9° N, 1.6° E: paleocoordinates 26.9° N, 1.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Djorf Touka Formation, Early/Lower Pliensbachian (189.6 - 183.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: M. Benhamou, S. Elmi, and Y. Almeras. 2000. Age et contexte dynamique des calcaires a brachiopodes tethysiens (Zeilleriides multiplisses) du Grand Pic de l'Ouarsenis (Tell algerien)[Age and dynamic context of the multicostate zeilleriids limestones of the Grand Pic de l'Ouarsenis (Algerian Tell)]. Comptes rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Sciences de la Terre et des Planètes 331:717-723 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 98474: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 07.10.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Metaderoceras sp. Spath 1925 ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
Cochlearites sp. oyster | |
Protodiceras sp. Böhm 1892 clam | |
Opisoma sp. Stoliczka 1871 clam | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Gibbirhynchia tounatensis Rousselle and Bisch 1967
Gibbirhynchia curviceps Quenstedt 1852 | |
Lobothyris fusiformis Dubar 1925 | |
Demospongiae | |
Chaetetidae indet. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 chaetetid sponge | |
Foraminifera | |