S Oued Temertasset, MOU-C2 (Carboniferous of Algeria)

Where: Algeria (26.6° N, 3.8° E: paleocoordinates 35.5° S, 6.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Argiles de Teguentour Formation, Tournaisian (358.9 - 346.7 Ma)

• sample MOU-C2, Late Tournaisian, Helicocyclus-Ouaoufilalites assemblage

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified claystone and lithified limestone

• claystone with thin limestone intercalations or lenticular noduls, sample from shales around the nodular horizon (sample MOU-C1)

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Primary reference: D. Korn, J. Bockwinkel, and V. Ebbighausen. 2010. The ammonoids from the Argiles de Teguentour of Oued Temertasset (early Late Tournaisian; Mouydir, Algeria). Fossil Record 13(1):35-152 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 135400: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 24.10.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida - Rotopericyclidae
Rotopericyclus lubesederi
Rotopericyclus lubesederi Korn et al. 2010 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Muensteroceratidae
Eurites permutus, Eurites doliaris, Muensteroceras multitudum
Eurites permutus Korn et al. 2010 ammonite
Eurites doliaris Korn et al. 2010 ammonite
Muensteroceras multitudum Korn et al. 2010 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Temertassetiidae
Kusinia falcifera
Kusinia falcifera Korn et al. 2010 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Prionoceratidae
Triimitoceras tantulum
Triimitoceras tantulum Korn et al. 2010 ammonite