JBH-B9 Jebel Boulahoujeb, Lansarine Chain: Early/Lower Hauterivian, Tunisia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
Phyllopachyceras ? infundibulum (d'Orbigny 1840)
1 category
categories based on specimen counts
Phylloceras (Hypophylloceras) tethys (d'Orbigny 1841)
1 category
recombined as Euphylloceras thetys
categories based on specimen counts
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Lytoceratidae
Lytoceras sp. Suess 1865
1 category
categories based on specimen counts
Lytoceras subfimbriatum (d'Orbigny 1841)
1 category
categories based on specimen counts
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Holcodiscidae
Spitidiscus sp. Kilian 1910
1 category
categories based on specimen counts
Spitidiscus lorioli
1 category
categories based on specimen counts
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Neocomitidae
Teschenites sp. (Thieuloy 1971)
1 category
original and current combination Neocomites (Teschenites)
categories based on specimen counts
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Olcostephanidae
Olcostephanus sp. Neumayr 1875
1 category
categories based on specimen counts
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Haploceratidae
Neolissoceras grasianum (d'Orbigny 1841)
1 category
recombined as Haploceras grasianum
categories based on specimen counts
see common names

Geography
Country:Tunisia
Coordinates: 36.8° North, 9.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:22.6° North, 14.3° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Stage:Hauterivian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 2
Key time interval:Early/Lower Hauterivian Ammonoid zone: Acanthodiscus radiatus
Age range of interval:132.60000 - 125.77000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:M' Chergua Formation:El Mergueb Member:H1
Local section:Jebel Boulahoujeb B Local bed:9
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphy comments: The section JBH-B starts after a lateral displacement of 10m to north–west from the top of section JBH-A. About 20m of limestone–marl alternations of the upper Valanginian are exposed at the base of the succession. The Hauterivian is represented by 783m of thickness, including a 65m gap of observation.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified calcareous "limestone"
Lithology description: About 20m of limestone–marl alternations of the upper Valanginian are exposed at the base of the succession. The Hauterivian is represented by 783m of thickness, including a 65m gap of observation. The succession is characterized by calcareous bundles that are limestone-dominated intervals (thick calcareous beds and reduction of marl-bed thickness); they are separated by thick marl-dominated intervals. Starting by a sandstone bed (JBH-B3; 3 m, ochre's colour), the lower part of the section JBH-B is composed by two calcareous bundles named H1 (JBH-B5 to B20; 34 m)
Environment:marine indet.
Geology comments: The Jebel Boulahouajeb section belongs the Tunisian trough a strongly subsiding basin from the Jurassic to Cretaceous time span. It corresponds to a deep marine palaeoenvironment characterized by pelagic-deep deposits.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:cast,mold/impression,original aragonite,original calcite
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera,some microfossils
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:205404
Authorizer:A. Kocsis Enterer:M. Gomez Correa
Modifier:M. Gomez Correa Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2019-10-15 03:34:56 Last modified:2019-10-15 03:40:19
Access level:authorizer only Released:2021-10-15 03:34:56
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

70462. S. Melliti, S. Reboulet, N. Ben Haj Ali, M. S. Arfaoui, F. Zargouni and L. Memmi. 2019. Ammonoid and foraminiferal biostratigraphy from uppermost Valanginian to lowermost Barremian of the Jebel Boulahouajeb section (northern Tunisia). Journal of African Earth Sciences 151:438-460 [A. Kocsis/M. Gomez Correa]