El Kef, El-Kef-20 (Cretaceous of Tunisia)
Where: Tunisia (36.2° N, 8.7° E: paleocoordinates 25.1° N, 7.4° E)
When: El Haria Formation, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; marl
Primary reference: L. Li, G. Keller and W. Stinnesbeck. 1999. The Late Campian and Maastrichtian in northwestern Tunisia: palaeoenvironmental inferences from lithology, macrofauna and benthic formainifera. Cretaceous Research 20:231-252 [L. Ivany/P. Wall/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 57336: authorized by Cinzia Cervato, entered by Cinzia Cervato on 13.12.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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Foraminifera | |
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Nodosariata | |
Lenticulina modesta, "Lenticulina muensteri" = Lenticulina munsteri, Saracenaria navicula, Saracenaria triangularis, Neoflabellina jarvisi, Neoflabellina rogusa
"Lenticulina muensteri" = Lenticulina munsteri Roemer 1839 | |
Lagena hispida, Astacolus sp., Dentalina basiplanata, Dentalina gracilis, Dentalina stephensoni, Dentalina legumen, Pseudonodosaria obesa, Nodosaria limbata
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Globothalamea | |
Gyroidina planulata Cushman and Renz 1941 | |
Gyroidinoides subangulata Plummer 1927 | |
Foraminifera | |