ammonites
Poste optique (Tataouine) (Jurassic to of Tunisia)

Where: Tunisia (32.9° N, 10.5° E: paleocoordinates 21.2° N, 11.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tataouine Formation, Callovian to Callovian (164.7 - 150.8 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified limestone and lithified marl

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Primary reference: G. Dubar. 1967. Brachiopodes Jurassiques du Sahara Tunisien [Jurassic brachiopods from the Tunisian Sahara]. Annales de Paleontologie, Invertebres 53:1-71 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 99125: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 28.10.2010