Djebel Zaghouan, Path to Poste Optique, bed 33 (Jurassic of Tunisia)

Where: Tunisia (36.4° N, 10.1° E: paleocoordinates 24.6° N, 11.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Schopeni ammonoid zone, Staa Formation, Spinatum (189.6 - 183.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, argillaceous limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Service de la Carte Géologiue de Tunisie

Primary reference: M. Rakús and J. Guex. 2002. Les ammonites du jurassique inférieur et moyen de la dorsal tunisienne. Mémoires de Géologie (Lausanne) 39:1-149 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 170578: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 23.06.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Lytoceratidae
Lytoceras sp. Suess 1865 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Hildoceratidae
Lioceratoides sp. Spath 1919 ammonite