Ait-Oufella, near Itzer (BMNH collection) (Jurassic of Italy)

Where: Italy (37.8° N, 15.3° E: paleocoordinates 23.9° N, 14.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Sinemurian (196.5 - 189.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by M.V. Melville in 1952; reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: E. F. Owen and E. P. F. Rose. 1997. Early Jurassic brachiopods from Gibraltar, and their Tethyan affinities. Palaeontology 40:497-513 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 135355: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 23.10.2012

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Plectoconchidae
"Merophricus mediterranea" = Merophricus mediterraneus
"Merophricus mediterranea" = Merophricus mediterraneus Canavari 1884