Also known as Djebel Chambi
Where: Tunisia (35.2° N, 8.7° E: paleocoordinates 31.5° N, 5.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; lignite
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Collected in 2008
Primary reference: N. Vialle, G. Merzeraud, C. Delmer, M. Feist, S. Jiquel, L. Marivaux, A. Ramdarshan, M. Vianey-Liaud, El Mabrouk Essid, W. Marzougui, H. K. Ammar and R. Tabuce. 2013. Discovery of an embrithopod mammal (Arsinoitherium?) in the late Eocene of Tunisia. Journal of African Earth Sciences 87:86-92 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 182490: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 02.11.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Nodosochara | |
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Pseudolatochara sp. Wang 1978 | |
| Raskyella | |
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Raskyella aff. sahariana "It seems probable that specimens of this Raskyellaceae have been reworked from the underlying Chambi-1 deposits" (Vialle et al. 2013)
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| Mammalia | |
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