Also known as El Eulma Basin

Where: Setif, Algeria (36.0° N, 5.7° E: paleocoordinates 35.8° N, 5.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Terrestrial sequence begins with a thick gypsum bed (60 meters) which progresses into blue clays with sandstone lenses. The fossil locality is located at the base of the blue clays and is resting on a sandstone bank.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; poorly lithified, fine-grained, blue claystone and poorly lithified, lenticular sandstone

Size class: microfossils

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

• Collection size unknown.

Primary reference: J. J. Jaeger. 1977. Les rongeurs du miocene moyen et superieur du Maghreb. Palaeovertebrata 8(1):1-166 [A. Behrensmeyer/S. Cote/S. Cote]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 35363: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Suzanne Cote on 06.12.2003

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