Also known as Lapparent site 4a, El Goléa, Buffalo Bordj, Tidikelt

Where: Adrar, Algeria (27.0° N, 1.1° E: paleocoordinates 16.2° N, 2.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Continental Intercalaire Formation, Early/Lower Berriasian to Early/Lower Berriasian (145.0 - 99.6 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Augieras & Lapparent, Taquet in 1946–1947

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• Much of collection now in El Goléa, in the "Buffalo Bordj" house of Augieras.

Primary reference: A. F. d. Lapparent. 1947. Stratigraphie et âge du continental intercalaire dans le Gourara, le Touat et le Tidikelt (Sahara algérien) [Stratigraphy and age of the Continental Intercalaire in the Gourara, Touat and Tidikelt (Algerian Sahara)]. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences à Paris 223:754-756 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 25139: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 29.08.2002

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