Bir Remtsa: Early/Lower Callovian, Tunisia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Ataphridae
Ataphrus halesus
Ataphrus labadyei (d'Archiac 1850)
Gastropoda - Discohelicidae
Nummocalcar bussoni n. sp. Cox 1969
Gastropoda - Pseudomelaniidae
Pseudomelania (Oonia) remtsaensis n. sp.
Gastropoda - Ampullinidae
Ampullospira stricklandi
spelled with current rank as Ampullina (Ampullospira)
Gastropoda - Procerithiidae
Cosmocerithium dorvali (Cossmann 1899)
Procerithium (Rhabdocolpus) brachymorphum
original and current combination Rhabdocolpus
Gastropoda - Aporrhaidae
Pietteia tatahouinensis n. sp. Cox 1969
see common names

Geography
Country:Tunisia
Coordinates: 32.7° North, 10.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:21.2° North, 11.5° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Middle Jurassic
Stage:Callovian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
Key time interval:Early/Lower Callovian
Age range of interval:165.30000 - 161.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Tataouine
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Secondary lithology: lithified marl
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:cast
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:100390
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2010-12-09 01:31:46 Last modified:2010-12-08 08:31:46
Access level:the public Released:2010-12-09 01:31:46
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
34462. L. R. Cox. 1969. Gasteropodes Jurassiques du Sud-Est Tunisien [Jurassic gastropods from SE Tunisia]. Annales de Paleontologie, Invertebres 55(2):241-268 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]