Where: Tunisia (32.3° N, 10.4° E: paleocoordinates 20.8° N, 11.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Tataouine Formation, Callovian to Callovian (166.1 - 157.3 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified limestone and lithified marl
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast
Primary reference: G. Dubar. 1967. Brachiopodes Jurassiques du Sahara Tunisien [Jurassic brachiopods from the Tunisian Sahara]. Annales de Paleontologie, Invertebres 53:1-71 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 99113: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 27.10.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Burmirhynchia weiri Diaz-Romero 1931 | |
"Terebratula cf. bicanaliculata" = Bihenithyris bicanaliculata
"Terebratula cf. bicanaliculata" = Bihenithyris bicanaliculata Schlotheim 1820 | |
Terebratula bussoni Dubar 1967
Terebratula djeffarae n. sp. Dubar 1967 |