Where: Algeria (26.6° N, 1.9° E: paleocoordinates 28.3° S, 1.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Tirechoumine Formation, Asbian to Asbian (340.0 - 330.9 Ma)
• Late Visean
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale and lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Marie Legrand-Blain
Collection methods: peel or thin section,
Primary reference: M. Aretz. 2011. Corals from the Carboniferous of the central Sahara (Algeria): the collection "Marie Legrand-Blain". Geodiversitas 33(4):581-624 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 135034: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 19.10.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
? Amplexizaphrentis sp. Vaughan 1906 horn coral |