Where: Tunisia (35.4° N, 9.2° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 23.3° N, 18.9° E (Wright 2013)
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Early/Lower Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From an unnamed lithostratigraphic unit. AGE: Turonian, on the basis of ammonoid biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From the 3rd fossiliferous bed (bottom to top) in text-fig. 5 of Chancellor et al. (1994). PJW: Bahloul or Kef.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, argillaceous limestone and lithified claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Reposited in the OUM
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: Chancellor et al., early 1990's? REPOSITORY:OUM.
Primary reference: G. R. Chancellor, W. J. Kennedy, and J. M. Hancock. 1994. Turonian ammonite faunas from central Tunisia. Palaeontological Association Special Papers in Palaeontology 50:1-118 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 88843: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 22.04.2009
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Kamerunoceras sp., "Paramammites polymorphus" = Paramammites polymorphum
Kamerunoceras sp. Reyment 1954 ammonite
"Paramammites polymorphus" = Paramammites polymorphum Pervinquiére 1907 ammonite | |
Neoptychites cephalotus Courtiller 1860 ammonite
Fagesia peroni Pervinquiére 1907 ammonite
Fagesia superstes Kossmat 1897 ammonite | |
Wrightoceras cf. munieri Pervinquiére 1907 ammonite | |
Cibolaites sp. Cobban and Hook 1983 ammonite | |
Thomasites rollandi Peron 1890 ammonite | |
Gastropoda | |
Tylostoma cossoni Thomas and Peron 1889 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Plagiostoma delettrei Coquand 1852 file clam |