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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Foraminifera | |
Lingulinopsis sp. Reuss 1860 | |
Nodosariata | |
Lenticulina modesta, "Lenticulina muensteri" = Lenticulina munsteri, Saracenaria navicula, Saracenaria triangularis, Neoflabellina rogusa
"Lenticulina muensteri" = Lenticulina munsteri Roemer 1839 | |
Astacolus sp., Nodosaria limbata, "Oolina apiculata" = Lagena apiculata, Lagena hispida, Dentalina gracilis, Dentalina stephensoni
Astacolus sp. de Montfort 1808
"Oolina apiculata" = Lagena apiculata Reuss 1850
Lagena hispida Reuss 1863 | |
Globothalamea | |
Gyroidina planulata Cushman and Renz 1941 |