Where: Southern District, Israel (30.7° N, 35.1° E: paleocoordinates 13.6° N, 30.4° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Phosphate Member (Mishash Formation), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• upper part of the Phosphorite Unit of the Phosphate Mbr
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; phosphatic carbonate
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast
Collected by Lewy
• Geological Survey of Israel
Primary reference: Z. Lewy, A. C. Milner, and C. Patterson. 1992. Remarkably preserved natural endocranial casts of pterosaur and fish from the Late Cretaceous of Israel. GSI Current Research 7:31-35 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 92192: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 03.11.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Titanopteryx sp. Arambourg 1959 pterosaur Two endocranial casts, isolated bones including wing phalanges and partial humerus
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