<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Benmansour, Sana</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Upper Cretaceous bivalves from Northeastern Algeria: Description and paleobiogeography</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Journal of African Earth Sciences</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2023</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2022.104787</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">198</style></volume><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
	The systematic study of bivalves collected from the Cenomanian-Turonian succession of the Bellezma-Batna Mountains (northeastern Algeria) led identification of nine species belonging to eight genera, three of which,&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Nicaisolopha nicaisei&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;(Coquand)&lt;em&gt;, Pterotrigonia&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;(&lt;em&gt;Scabrotrigonia&lt;/em&gt;)&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;scabra&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;(Lamarck), and&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Agelasina plenodonta&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;Riedel, were recorded for the first time from the study area. Particular attention was paid to the rudist fauna, including&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Vaccinites praegiganteus&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;(Toucas),&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Vaccinites rousseli&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;(Douvillé), and&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Sauvagesia nicaisei&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;(Coquand), occurring in very large numbers within composite&amp;nbsp;biostromes&amp;nbsp;(5 to 10 m-thick) composed of both hippuritids and radiolitids. A distribution map of Cenomanian-Turonian bivalves is established based on data from Algeria and other localities.
&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
	The map shows that the most bivalve genera are widely distributed and some of them are probably cosmopolitan. They are present in&amp;nbsp;northern Africa, Middle East, south and northern Europe,&amp;nbsp;western Africa, and South America, with some taxa are also known from the south-eastern coast of Africa (Madagascar and South Africa) and India.
&lt;/p&gt;
</style></abstract></record></records></xml>