Aynunah - Wadi Azlam - Al Khuraybah (Cretaceous to of Saudi Arabia)

Where: Tabuk, Saudi Arabia (28.1° N, 35.3° E: paleocoordinates 10.5° N, 29.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Adaffa Formation, Campanian to Campanian (83.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• found in beds "towards the top of the main sandstone sequence"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; ferruginous sandstone

• marginal marine conditions, probably linked to minor transgressive episodes
• thin limonitic beds towards the top of the main sandstone sequence

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Saudi Geological Survey in 2004–2006

Collection methods: surface (float),

Primary reference: B. P. Kear, T. H. Rich, M. A. Ali, Y. A. Al-Mufarrih, A. H. Matiri, A. M. Masary, and Y. Attia. 2008. Late Cretaceous (Campanian–Maastrichtian) marine reptiles from the Adaffa Formation, NW Saudi Arabia. Geological Magazine 145(5):648-654 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 116314: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 07.09.2011, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Theropoda - Abelisauridae
Abelisauridae indet.
Abelisauridae indet. Bonaparte and Novas 1985 ceratosaur
Teeth (SGS 0061, SGS 0090)
 Saurischia -
Titanosauria indet.
Titanosauria indet. Bonaparte and Coria 1993 sauropod
Caudal vertebrae (SGS 0188, SGS 0213, SGS 0342, SGS 0366, SGS 0422)
 Loricata -
Crocodyliformes indet.
Crocodyliformes indet. Hay 1930 crocodilian
SGS 004-32 (cranial fragment), SGS 006-204 (cervical centrum), SGS 006-16 (dorsal centrum)
 Loricata - Dyrosauridae
Dyrosauridae indet.
Dyrosauridae indet. crocodilian
SGS 006-204 (cervical centrum) and SGS 006-16 (dorsal centrum)
 Plesiosauria - Elasmosauridae
Elasmosauridae indet.
Elasmosauridae indet. Cope 1869 elasmosaur
SGS 006-20 (rostral section of a small skull)
 Squamata - Mosasauridae
Mosasauridae indet., Prognathodon sp., Plioplatecarpinae indet.
Mosasauridae indet. Gervais 1852 mosasaur
SGS 006-542 (pygal)
Prognathodon sp. Dollo 1889 mosasaur
teeth and vertebrae, including SGS 006-217
Plioplatecarpinae indet. Dollo 1884 mosasaur
SGS 006-340 (dorsal vertebra)
 Squamata -
Varanoidea indet.
Varanoidea indet. Gray 1827 squamates
vertebrae, including SGS 004-70 (dorsal vertebra) - aquatic varanoids
 Testudines - Bothremydidae
Bothremydidae indet., Taphrosphyini indet.
Bothremydidae indet. sideneck turtle
SGS 004-10
Taphrosphyini indet. Gaffney et al. 2006 sideneck turtle
SGS 006-84 (femur)
 Testudines -
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines Batsch 1788 turtle
indeterminate shell fragments, including SGS 004-10
 Tracheophyta -
Tracheophyta indet.
Tracheophyta indet.
wood fragments