Djebel Semene Mine (Miocene of Tunisia)

Where: Tunisia (36.1° N, 9.3° E: paleocoordinates 35.9° N, 8.9° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• originally described as Pontian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; limestone

• "une serie conglomeratique greseuse avec un beau banc repere de calcaire lacustre rougeatre, puis un serie marneuse"

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: F. M. Bergounioux. 1955. Testudo semenensis nov. sp. du Djebel Semene (Tunisie). Bulletin de la Societe des Sciences Naturelles de Tunisie 8(1-2) [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 177031: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 16.03.2016

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Testudines - Testudinidae
Testudo semenensis n. sp.
Testudo semenensis n. sp. Bergounioux 1955 turtle