El Kef, El-Kef-24.5 (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 57340: authorized by Cinzia Cervato, entered by Cinzia Cervato on 13.12.2005

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Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
 Rotaliacea - Rotaliidae
 Nodosariacea - Ellipsolagenidae
 Asterigerinacea - Epistomariidae
 Rotaliina -
 Rotaliina - Turrilinidae
  - Spiroplectamminidae
 Buliminoidea - Buliminidae
  -
Lingulinopsis sp. Reuss 1860
  - Chilostomellidae
Nodosariata
 Vaginulinida - Vaginulinidae
 Nodosariida - Nodosariidae
Astacolus sp. de Montfort 1808
"Oolina apiculata" = Lagena apiculata Reuss 1850
Lagena hispida Reuss 1863
Globothalamea
 Rotaliida - Cibicididae
 Rotaliida - Cancrisidae
 Rotaliida - Quadrimorphinidae
 Rotaliida - Alabaminidae
 Rotaliida - Anomalinidae
 Rotaliida - Gavelinellidae
Gyroidina planulata Cushman and Renz 1941