El Kef, El-Kef-34.2 (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 57347: authorized by Cinzia Cervato, entered by Cinzia Cervato on 13.12.2005

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Taxonomic list

Nodosariata
 Nodosariida - Nodosariidae
 Vaginulinida - Vaginulinidae
 Polymorphinida - Polymorphinidae
Foraminifera
  -
 Globigerinaceae - Heterohelicidae
Bolivinoides draco
Bolivinoides draco draco
Globothalamea
 Rotaliida - Cancrisidae
 Rotaliida - Cibicididae
 Rotaliida - Nonionidae
Nonionella cretacea Cushman 1931
 Rotaliida - Gavelinellidae
 Rotaliida - Alabaminidae
 Rotaliida - Anomalinidae
Foraminifera
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
  - Chilostomellidae
  - Spiroplectamminidae
 Textulariina - Tritaxiidae
 Rotaliina - Turrilinidae
 Rotaliina - Fursenkoinidae
Fursenkoina sp. d'Orbigny 1846
 Rotaliina -
Coryphostoma incrassata
Coryphostoma incrassata gigantea