Tinrhert, Algerian Sahara, CS1: Late/Upper Cenomanian, Algeria

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Ceratostreon flabellatum (Goldfuss 1833)
Amphidonte sp. Fischer von Waldheim 1829
? Laevigyra luynesi (Lartet 1872)
Costagyra olisiponensis (Sharpe 1850)
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Oscillopha syphax
see common names

Geography
Country:Algeria
Coordinates: 29.0° North, 9.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:12.6° North, 6.5° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Cenomanian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 5
Key time interval:Late/Upper Cenomanian Zone: CS1
Age range of interval:100.50000 - 93.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Upper Cenomanian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:185654
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:M. Krause
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2017-05-05 04:37:14 Last modified:2017-05-05 04:37:14
Access level:authorizer only Released:2017-08-05 04:37:14
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

62230. A. V. Dhondt, N. Malchus, L. Boumaza and E. Jaillaerd. 1999. Cretaceous oysters from North Africa : origin and distribution. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France 170(1):67-76 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]