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