El Kef, El-Kef-24.5: Maastrichtian, Tunisia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Lituolida
- Lituolidae
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Gaudryina pyramidata
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5 specimens | ||||||
Rotaliidae
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Oridorsalis umbonatus
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Ellipsolagenidae
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Oolina delicata
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Oolina globulosa
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2 specimens | ||||||
Epistomariidae
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Nuttallides truempyi
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unclassified
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Coryphostoma midwayensis
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4 specimens | ||||||
Coryphostoma plaitum
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9 specimens | ||||||
Turrilinidae
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Praebulimina carseyae
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Praebulimina quadrata
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Spiroplectamminidae
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Spiroplectammina knebeli
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Spiroplectammina spectabillis
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2 specimens | ||||||
Buliminidae
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Angulogenerina cuneata
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unclassified
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Lingulinopsis sp.
Reuss 1860
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Chilostomellidae
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Pullenia jarvisi
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Nodosariata
- Vaginulinida
- Vaginulinidae
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Lenticulina modesta
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5 specimens | ||||||
Lenticulina muensteri
Bartenstein and Brand 1937
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5 specimens | ||||||
synonym of Lenticulina munsteri | |||||||
Saracenaria navicula
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2 specimens | ||||||
Saracenaria triangularis
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Neoflabellina rogusa
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Nodosariata
- Nodosariida
- Nodosariidae
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Astacolus sp.
de Montfort 1808
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Nodosaria limbata
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Oolina apiculata
Reuss 1850
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recombined as Lagena apiculata | |||||||
Lagena hispida
Reuss 1863
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Dentalina gracilis
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Dentalina stephensoni
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Globothalamea
- Rotaliida
- Cibicididae
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Cibicidoides dayi
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Cibicidoides succedens
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3 specimens | ||||||
Globothalamea
- Rotaliida
- Cancrisidae
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Gyroidinoides gyrardana
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5 specimens | ||||||
original and current combination Valvalabamina | |||||||
Gyroidinoides subangulata
Plummer 1927
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2 specimens | ||||||
Stensioina excolata
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3 specimens | ||||||
Globothalamea
- Rotaliida
- Quadrimorphinidae
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Quadrimorphina camerata
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2 specimens | ||||||
Globothalamea
- Rotaliida
- Alabaminidae
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Alabamina dorsoplana
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2 specimens | ||||||
Osangularia cordieriana
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Globothalamea
- Rotaliida
- Anomalinidae
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Anomalinoides praeacuta
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15 specimens | ||||||
Anomalinoides acuta
(Plummer 1927)
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3 specimens | ||||||
Anomalinoides welleri
(Plummer 1927)
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9 specimens | ||||||
Globothalamea
- Rotaliida
- Gavelinellidae
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Gyroidina depressa
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3 specimens | ||||||
Gyroidina planulata
Cushman and Renz 1941
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9 specimens | ||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Tunisia |
Coordinates: | 36.2° North, 8.7° East (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 25.1° North, 7.4° East |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
Stage: | Maastrichtian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 8 |
Key time interval: | Maastrichtian | ||
Age range of interval: | 72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | marl |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 57340 | ||
Authorizer: | C. Cervato | Enterer: | C. Cervato | Research group: | micropaleontology |
Created: | 2005-12-13 17:44:29 | Last modified: | 2005-12-13 19:44:29 |
Access level: | the public | ||
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
12551. | L. Li, G. Keller and W. Stinnesbeck. 1999. The Late Campian and Maastrichtian in northwestern Tunisia: palaeoenvironmental inferences from lithology, macrofauna and benthic formainifera. Cretaceous Research 20:231-252 [L. Ivany/P. Wall/M. Uhen] |