Also known as Gebel Miteur, Jebel Miteur, Bi'r Miteur, Foum Tatahouine
Where: Médenine, Tunisia (33.2° N, 10.3° E: paleocoordinates 16.6° N, 11.3° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Oum ed Diab Member (Aïn el Guettar Formation), Late/Upper Aptian to Late/Upper Aptian (122.5 - 109.0 Ma)
• Radouane Member of Chenini Fm.; orig. assigned to the Chenini Member, but referred to the lower Oum ed Diab Mbr. in Fanti et al. 2012
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: sandy carbonate
Size class: mesofossils
Collected in 1985, 1997–1998
Collection methods: surface (float),
Primary reference: S. Bouaziz, E. Buffetaut, M. Ghanmi, J.-J. Jaeger, M. Martin, J.-M. Mazin, and H. Tong. 1988. Nouvelles découvertes de vertébrés fossiles dans l'Albien du sud tunisien [New discoveries of fossil vertebrates in the Albian of southern Tunisia]. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, 8e série 4(2):335-339 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 67203: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 14.11.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Osteichthyes | |
Neoceratodus africanus Haug 1905 Queensland lungfish | |
Actinopteri | |
cf. Caturus sp. Agassiz 1834 bowfin | |
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Pycnodontiformes indet. Berg 1937 | |
cf. Anomoeodus sp. Forir 1887 | |
Chondrichthyes | |
? Cretodus sp. Sokolov 1965 mackerel shark
Protolamna sp. Cappetta 1980 mackerel shark |