Where: Adrar, Algeria (29.7° N, 1.9° E: paleocoordinates 14.6° N, 0.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Samani Vertebrate-Rich Sand Member (Gara Samani Formation), Late/Upper Albian to Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 93.5 Ma)

• fossils are from several beds, below the Cenomanian Tademaït Sandstone ("infra-Cenomanian"), formerly the "Continental Intercalaire"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coarse channel fill; red, yellow, argillaceous sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by C. Grenot & R. Vernet; Benyoucef in the 1970, 2020s; reposited in the MNHN

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: F. de Broin, C. Grenot, and R. Vernet. 1971. Sur la découverte d’un nouveau gisement de Vertébrés dans le Continental Intercalaire saharien: la Gara Samani (Algérie) [On the discovery of a new vertebrate locality in the Saharan Continental Intercalaire: Gara Samani]. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences à Paris, Série D 272:1219-1221 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 59578: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 04.04.2006, edited by Philip Mannion

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