El Kef, El-Kef-24.5: Maastrichtian, Tunisia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Lituolida - Lituolidae
Gaudryina pyramidata
5 specimens
Rotaliidae
Oridorsalis umbonatus
Ellipsolagenidae
Oolina delicata
Oolina globulosa
2 specimens
Epistomariidae
Nuttallides truempyi
unclassified
Coryphostoma midwayensis
4 specimens
Coryphostoma plaitum
9 specimens
Turrilinidae
Praebulimina carseyae
Praebulimina quadrata
Spiroplectamminidae
Spiroplectammina knebeli
Spiroplectammina spectabillis
2 specimens
Buliminidae
Angulogenerina cuneata
unclassified
Lingulinopsis sp. Reuss 1860
Chilostomellidae
Pullenia jarvisi
Nodosariata - Vaginulinida - Vaginulinidae
Lenticulina modesta
5 specimens
Lenticulina muensteri Bartenstein and Brand 1937
5 specimens
synonym of Lenticulina munsteri
Saracenaria navicula
2 specimens
Saracenaria triangularis
Neoflabellina rogusa
Nodosariata - Nodosariida - Nodosariidae
Astacolus sp. de Montfort 1808
Nodosaria limbata
Oolina apiculata Reuss 1850
recombined as Lagena apiculata
Lagena hispida Reuss 1863
Dentalina gracilis
Dentalina stephensoni
Globothalamea - Rotaliida - Cibicididae
Cibicidoides dayi
Cibicidoides succedens
3 specimens
Globothalamea - Rotaliida - Cancrisidae
Gyroidinoides gyrardana
5 specimens
original and current combination Valvalabamina
Gyroidinoides subangulata Plummer 1927
2 specimens
Stensioina excolata
3 specimens
Globothalamea - Rotaliida - Quadrimorphinidae
Quadrimorphina camerata
2 specimens
Globothalamea - Rotaliida - Alabaminidae
Alabamina dorsoplana
2 specimens
Osangularia cordieriana
Globothalamea - Rotaliida - Anomalinidae
Anomalinoides praeacuta
15 specimens
Anomalinoides acuta (Plummer 1927)
3 specimens
Anomalinoides welleri (Plummer 1927)
9 specimens
Globothalamea - Rotaliida - Gavelinellidae
Gyroidina depressa
3 specimens
Gyroidina planulata Cushman and Renz 1941
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
Stratigraphy
Formation:El Haria
Local section:El Kef Local bed:24.5 m
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]