PBDB Collection

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Pisces

	Pisces indet. Linnaeus 1758
	synonym of Osteichthyes
Mammalia - Giraffidae

	Giraffidae indet. Gray 1821
Mammalia - Bovidae

	Antilopini indet. Gray 1821
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae

	Hipparion sp. de Christol 1832
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae

	Tetralophodon sp. Falconer 1857
	originally reported as Mastodon sp.
Reptilia - Crocodilia

	Crocodilia indet. Owen 1842
	spelled with current rank as Crocodylia
see common names

Geography

Country:	Tunisia
Coordinates:	34.3° North, 8.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	34.0° North, 8.4° East
Basis of coordinate:	estimated from map
Geographic resolution:	local area

Time

Period:	Neogene	Epoch:	Miocene
10 m.y. bin:	Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:	Late/Upper Miocene
Age range of interval:	11.63000 - 5.33300 m.y. ago

Stratigraphy

Formation:	?Beglia
Stratigraphic resolution:	formation
Stratigraphy comments: No detailed information available

Lithology and environment

Lithology description: None available

Taphonomy

Collection methods and comments

Collection excludes:	some macrofossils
Collection methods:	surface (float),mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:	taxonomic analysis

Metadata

Database number:	34805
Authorizer:	A. Behrensmeyer	Enterer:	S. Cote
Modifier:	S. Cote	Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	2003-09-27 05:45:57	Last modified:	2003-11-23 09:51:03
Access level:	the public	Released:	2003-09-27 05:45:57
Creative Commons license:	CC BY

Reference information

Primary reference:

9170.

C. Arambourg. 1959. Vertébrés continentaux du Miocène supérieur de l'afrique du nord. Publications du Service de la Carte Géologique de l'Algérie. Mémoire No. 4. 1-159 [A. Behrensmeyer/S. Cote/S. Cote]