Laguermi Valley, El Bayadh area (Jurassic of Algeria)

Where: Algeria (33.6° N, 1.2° E: paleocoordinates 25.4° N, 5.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sfissifa Formation, Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)

• Upper Kimmeridgian (transition from the Eudoxus Zone to base of the Autissiodorensis Zone)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified marl

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Department of Palaeontology, Faculty of Mining and Geology, University of

•Belgrade (RGF VR), and in the collection of the Laboratory of Stratigraphic Palaeontology and Palaeoenvironnement (LPSP) of Oran2 University Mohamed Ben Ahmed, Algeria (BDH and BLM)

Primary reference: C. Y. Mahboubi, B. V. Radulović, A. O. Mehadji, W. Ayoub-Hannaa, and A. Munnecke. 2021. Late Jurassic (Oxfordian-Kimmeridgian) brachiopods of the El Bayadh Area (Central Saharan Atlas, Algeria): biostratigraphy, stratigraphic revision, paleobiogeography and paleoecology. Historical Biology 33:3260-3280 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 224156: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.01.2022

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Postepithyrididae
Xestosina arguta Cooper 1983