Also known as Lapparent site 8
Where: Tataouine, Tunisia (32.0° N, 10.8° E: paleocoordinates 15.2° N, 10.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Continental Intercalaire Formation, Barremian to Barremian (129.4 - 100.5 Ma)
• Beds are not easily dated but studies in the last few years agree that beds exposed in Tunisia are likely Barremian–Albian. See Fanti et al. 2012; Hamed et al. 2014; Fanti et al. 2016; Holwerda 2020
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; pebbly, sandy sandstone and claystone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: replaced with silica
Collected by A. F. de Lapparent in 1951
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),
Primary reference: A. F. d. Lapparent. 1951. Découverte de Dinosauriens, associés à une faune de Reptiles et de Poissons, dans le Crétacé inférieur de l'Extrême Sud tunisien [Discovery of dinosaurs associated with a reptile and fish fauna in the Lower Cretaceous of extreme southern Tunisia]. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences à Paris 232:1430-1432 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 25190: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 01.09.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Plantae indet.1 Haeckel 1866 | |
Actinopteri | |
Semionotidae indet.2 Woodward 1890 | |
Reptilia | |
Crocodylia indet. crocodilian | |
Dinosauria indet. dinosaur | |
Chondrichthyes | |
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