Tentative re-interpretation of particular outcrops from the Dorsale calcaire of Lesser Kabylia. A: The pelagic Upper Cretaceous limestones could represent infilling of a cavity in a submarine fault scarp rather than a meter-size pinched syncline. B: The alleged, hundred meters-size “pinched synclines” of Upper Cretaceous coarse conglomerates of Jebel Sema could be explained by onlap of Cretaceous deposits on extensional tilted blocks subsequently crosscut by Late Eocene thrusts.