Touil Dehibat, Garet er Rehi: Barremian - Albian, Tunisia
collected by A. F. de Lapparent 1951

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
Lapparent 1960
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Hybodontidae
Priohybodus arambourgi d'Erasmo 1960
Tabaste 1963 1 specimen
Reptilia - Crocodylia
Crocodylia indet. (Owen 1842)
Reptilia - Dinosauria
Dinosauria indet. Owen 1842
Actinopteri - Semionotiformes - Semionotidae
Pisces indet. Linnaeus 1758
Lapparent 1960
    = Semionotidae indet. Woodward 1890
Tabaste 1963
see common names

Geography
Country:Tunisia State/province:Tataouine
Coordinates: 32.0° North, 10.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:15.2° North, 10.9° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:297 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
*Period:Early/Lower Cretaceous
*International age/stage:Early/Lower Albian - Early/Lower Cenomanian
Key time interval:Barremian - Albian
Age range of interval:129.40000 - 100.50000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Continental Intercalaire
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: Beds are not easily dated but studies in the last few years agree that beds exposed in Tunisia are likely Barremian–Albian. See Fanti et al. 2012; Hamed et al. 2014; Fanti et al. 2016; Holwerda 2020
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:pebbly sandy sandstone
Secondary lithology: claystone
Lithology description: sandy sandstone with quartz pebbles and silicified wood, clays with gypsum
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,replaced with silica
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Disassociated minor elements:some
Fragmentation:frequent
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera,species names
Collection methods:surface (float),surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:A. F. de Lapparent Collection dates:Jan 1951
Metadata
Also known as:Lapparent site 8
Database number:25190
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:G. Varnham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2002-09-01 19:23:19 Last modified:2022-03-15 05:24:22
Access level:the public Released:2002-09-01 19:23:19
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

30615.ETE A. F. d. Lapparent. 1951. Découverte de Dinosauriens, associés à une faune de Reptiles et de Poissons, dans le Crétacé inférieur de l'Extrême Sud tunisien [Discovery of dinosaurs associated with a reptile and fish fauna in the Lower Cretaceous of extreme southern Tunisia]. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences à Paris 232:1430-1432 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

45858 A. F. d. Lapparent. 1957. The Cretaceous dinosaurs of Africa and India. Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 2:109-112 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
45935 A. F. d. Lapparent. 1960. Les dinosaures du Sahara central [The dinosaurs of the central Sahara]. Travaux de l'Institut de Recherches Sahariennes 19(1–2):7-24 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
7056 A. F. d. Lapparent. 1960. Les Dinosauriens du "Continental intercalaire" du Saharal central [The dinosaurs of the "Continental Intercalaire" of the central Sahara]. Mémoires de la Société géologique de France, nouvelle série 39(88A):1-57 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
71151 N. Tabaste. 1963. Étude derestes de poissons du Crétacé saharien [Study of fish remains from the Saharan Cretaceous]. Mélanges Ichthyologiques Dédiés à la Mémoire d’Achille Valenciennes (1794–1865). Mémoires de l’Institute Français d’Afrique Noire 68:437-485 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
70903 P. Taquet. 2010. The dinosaurs of Maghreb: the history of their discovery. Historical Biology 22(1–3):88-99 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]