between Tab-Tab and Mazoula (Cretaceous to of Algeria)

Also known as Tabtab, Djoua Valley, Hassi Mazoula

Where: Illizi, Algeria (28.4° N, 7.8° E: paleocoordinates 11.8° N, 5.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Continental Intercalaire Formation, Early/Lower Albian to Early/Lower Albian (112.0 - 93.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; green, red, white claystone and sandstone

• "bariolitic clays with banks of gypsum and sandstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (float),

Primary reference: N. Tabaste. 1963. Étude derestes de poissons du Crétacé saharien [Study of fish remains from the Saharan Cretaceous]. Mélanges Ichthyologiques Dédiés à la Mémoire d’Achille Valenciennes (1794–1865). Mémoires de l’Institute Français d’Afrique Noire 68:437-485 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 206853: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 06.12.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Dipnoi - Ceratodontidae
Ceratodus humei Priem 1914 lungfish
 Ceratodontiformes - Neoceratodontidae
"Ceratodus africanus" = Neoceratodus africanus
"Ceratodus africanus" = Neoceratodus africanus Haug 1905 Queensland lungfish