Nalut (shark tooth locality): Aptian - Albian, Libya
collected by U. Lenuzza 1984

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Hybodontidae
Priohybodus arambourgi d'Erasmo 1960
200 isolated, complete and fragmentary crowns
Reptilia - Crocodylomorpha
Crocodylomorpha indet. (Hay 1930)
Reptilia - Theropoda
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881
Actinopteri - Lepisosteiformes
Lepidotes sp. Agassiz 1832
see common names

Geography
Country:Libya
Coordinates: 31.9° North, 11.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:14.7° North, 10.7° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:660 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Key time interval:Aptian - Albian
Age range of interval:125.00000 - 100.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Chicla Member:Ar Rajban
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Also known as the Kiklah Formation; Lugh Series
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:"cross stratification" sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Clastic rocks dominated by light, friable, cross-bedded quartz sandstones
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Geology comments: An overstepping continental clastic sequence.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:salvage,selective quarrying,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:U. Lenuzza Collection dates:1984
Collection method comments: Found in 1984 by Umberto Lenuzza while working in Libya with an Italian firm
Metadata
Database number:139439
Authorizer:P. Mannion Enterer:J. Tennant
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2013-02-12 01:53:44 Last modified:2013-02-11 08:53:44
Access level:the public Released:2013-02-12 01:53:44
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

44830. C. J. Duffin. 2001. The hybodont shark, Priohybodus d'Erasmo, 1960, (Early Cretaceous, northern Africa). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 133:303-308 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]