Where: Saudi Arabia (26.4° N, 44.2° E: paleocoordinates 19.8° S, 41.2° E)
When: Jilh Formation, Ladinian (242.0 - 237.0 Ma)
• Jilh Formation is late Anisian-lowermost Carnian
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, calcareous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 1976
• Repository: Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery in Launceston, Tasmania (QVM, GFV, geology fossil vertebrates)
Primary reference: P. Vickers-Rich, T. H. Rich, O. Rieppel, R. A. Thulborn, and H. A. McClure. 1999. A Middle Triassic vertebrate fauna from the Jilh Formation, Saudi Arabia. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 213:201-232 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 149547: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 07.08.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Reptilia | |
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Ichthyosauria indet. ichthyosaur | |
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Tanystropheidae indet. Gervais 1859 archosauromorph | |
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Nothosaurus sp. Münster 1834 diapsid | |
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Pachypleurosauridae indet. Nopcsa 1928 diapsid | |
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Simosaurus sp. Meyer 1842 nothosaur | |
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Cyamodontoidea indet. Nopcsa 1923 placodont | |
| Osteichthyes | |
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? Saurichthys sp. Agassiz 1834 ray-finned fish | |
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? Gyrolepis sp. Agassiz 1833 | |
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Birgeria sp. Stensiö 1919 | |
| Actinopteri | |
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? Sargodon sp. Plieninger 1847 | |
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? Paralepidotus sp. Stolley 1919 | |
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Colobodus sp. Agassiz 1843 | |
| Chondrichthyes | |
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? Lissodus sp. Brough 1935 elasmobranch | |
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Acrodus spp. Agassiz 1834 elasmobranch | |
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Hybodus sp. Agassiz 1834 elasmobranch
Hybodus aff. plicatilis Agassiz 1834 elasmobranch | |