Also known as Reef 1179

Where: Tunisia (34.9° N, 9.4° E: paleocoordinates 21.6° N, 9.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Merfeg Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified packstone and lithified wackestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. H. Negra, B. H. Purser, and A. M'Rabet. 1995. Sedimentation, diagenesis and syntectonic erosion of Upper Cretaceous rudist mounds in central Tunisia. in C. L. V. Monty, D. W. J. Bosence, P. H. Bridges and B. R. Pratt, eds., Carbonate mud-mounds. Special Publication of the International Association of Sedimentologists 23:401-419 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 74533: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 10.08.2007