Meroui Formation (Tellian Group), Chabet Serardja, Algeria - Anderson (1936) (Miocene of Algeria)

Where: Algeria (35.8° N, 0.8° E: paleocoordinates 35.5° N, 0.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sarhli Member, Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)

• The collection is from the Meroui stage, which has a thickness of 370 m at Chabet Seradja. The bulk of the section is bluish marl, overlying a variable basal sandy member 40 m thick. The collection is derived from the top of the mar. The Tellian group corresponds to the upper half or third of the Miocene. Faunal correlations sugesst it corresponds to Helvetian and Tortonian of Europe, but does include younger facies, which may be late Miocene and Pliocene. The Tellian Group is seperated into three lithologic subdivisions, the Meroui, Beida, and Mellah stages.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shelly/skeletal, blue marl

• No paleoenvironmental data reported.
• Bluish, fossiliferous marl.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Unknown collector, probably the author.

Primary reference: R. V. Anderson. 1936. Geology of the Coastal Atlas of western Algeria. Geological Society of America Memoir 4:1-484 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/S. Ávila]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 42824: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 05.08.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Representative list.
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Natica sp. Scopoli 1777 moon snail
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Amusium sp. Röding 1798 scallop
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Venus sp. Linnaeus 1758 venus clam
Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell