Where: Libya (31.9° N, 11.0° E: paleocoordinates 14.7° N, 10.7° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Ar Rajban Member (Chicla Formation), Aptian to Aptian (125.0 - 100.5 Ma)
• Also known as the Kiklah Formation; Lugh Series
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by U. Lenuzza in 1984
Collection methods: salvage, quarrying,
• Found in 1984 by Umberto Lenuzza while working in Libya with an Italian firm
Primary reference: C. J. Duffin. 2001. The hybodont shark, Priohybodus d'Erasmo, 1960, (Early Cretaceous, northern Africa). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 133:303-308 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 139439: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 12.02.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
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Reptilia | |
Crocodylomorpha indet. crocodilian | |
Theropoda indet. theropod | |
Actinopteri | |
Lepidotes sp. Agassiz 1832 gar |