Also known as Tayasir volcanics

Where: Israel (31.0° N, 35.2° E: paleocoordinates 7.7° N, 30.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Berriasian to Berriasian (145.0 - 132.9 Ma)

• The fossiliferous levels are interbedded in the Tayasir volcanics, which yielded a radiometric date of approximately 133 Ma.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: soft parts

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: M. J. Polcyn, E. Tchernov, and L.L. Jacobs. 1999. The Cretaceous biogeography of the Eastern Mediterranean with a description of a new basal mosasauroid from 'Ein Yabrud, Israel. in Y. Tomida, T.H. Rich and P. Vickers-Rich, eds., Proceedings of the Second Gondwanan Dinosaur Symposium. National Science Museum Monographs, Tokyo, Japan. (15)259-290 [E. Fara/E. Fara/E. Fara]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 11806: authorized by Emmanuel Fara, entered by Emmanuel Fara on 12.09.2001

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