Also known as Sahel Alma
Where: Lebanon (34.0° N, 35.7° E: paleocoordinates 15.3° N, 31.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)
• The first dating of the section as "Senonian" by Fraas (1878) was refined by Ejel & Dubertret (1966) as Upper Santonian based on planktonic foraminifera.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified lime mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: soft parts
Collected by Tristram; reposited in the BMNH
Primary reference: J. D. Davis. 1887. The fossil fishes of the chalk of Mount Lebanon, in Syria. The Scientific Transactions of the Royal Dublin Society, Series II 3:457-634 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 221155: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.07.2021
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
"Thyellina curtirostris n. sp." = Palaeotriakis curtirostris
"Thyellina curtirostris n. sp." = Palaeotriakis curtirostris Davis 1887 hound shark |