Also known as Shomron
Where: Israel (32.5° N, 34.9° E: paleocoordinates 9.5° N, 30.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Tayasir Formation, Berriasian (145.0 - 139.8 Ma)
• "Subunit 15, Tuff Member; 44-45 m above base of Tayasir Volcanics"
•specimens are "unequally distributed throughout the 1.5-m laminated shale layer"
•formation is "Hauterivian or Barremian" and specimens are from the lower part of the formation and therefore "may be Hauterivian"
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: pond; lithified, gypsiferous shale and tuff
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression, soft parts, replaced with limonite, replaced with carbon
Collection methods: specimens are in the Museum of the Department of Zoology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Primary reference: R. Estes, Z. V. Spinar, and E. Nevo. 1978. Early Cretaceous pipid tadpoles from Israel (Amphibia: Anura). Herpetologica 34(4):374-393 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 84472: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 24.10.2008, edited by Jered Karr
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
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Insecta | |
Gondwablatta abrahami n. gen. n. sp.2
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Cretosperchus medievalis n. gen. n. sp.1
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Deuteropoda | |
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Amphibia | |
Shomronella jordanica n. gen. n. sp.
Shomronella jordanica n. gen. n. sp. Estes et al. 1978 clawed frog | |
Actinopteri | |
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