Also known as Jabal Nafusah

Where: Libya (31.9° N, 11.0° E: paleocoordinates 16.8° N, 12.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cabao Formation, Hauterivian to Hauterivian (132.9 - 125.0 Ma)

• orig. assigned to Chicla (= Kiklah) Fm., but "could be Cabao Formation" - supported by Le Loeuff et al. 2010

• 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: F. M. Dalla Vecchia. 1995. Second record of a site with dinosaur skeletal remains in Libya (northern Africa). Natura Nascosta 11:16-21 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 61465: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 13.06.2006

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