Also known as Reef 1179
Where: Tunisia (34.9° N, 9.4° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 19.4° N, 16.9° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Merfeg Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified packstone and lithified wackestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: M. H. Negra, B. H. Purser, and A. M'Rabet. 1995. Sedimentation, diagenesis and syntectonic erosion of Upper Cretaceous rudist mounds in central Tunisia. in C. L. V. Monty, D. W. J. Bosence, P. H. Bridges and B. R. Pratt, eds., Carbonate mud-mounds. Special Publication of the International Association of Sedimentologists 23:401-419 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 74533: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 10.08.2007
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
"Plesiaster sp." = Micraster (Plesiaster)
"Plesiaster sp." = Micraster (Plesiaster) Pomel 1883 heart urchin | |
Bivalvia | |
Sabinia sp. Parona 1908 rudist | |
Vaccinites braciensis rudist
Pironaea cf. corrugata rudist
Pironaea cf. timacensis rudist
Hippurites colliciatus Woodward 1855 rudist | |
Anthozoa | |
Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900 stony coral |