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 | |
Xestosina arguta Cooper 1983 |