Nalut: Hauterivian - Barremian, Libya
collected by U. Lenuzza 1984
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Abelisauridae
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Theropoda indet.
Marsh 1881
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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= Abelisauridae indet.
Bonaparte and Novas 1985
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Smith and Dalla Vecchia 2006 | |||||||||
| MPCP 13693, tooth | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Crocodylia
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Crocodylia indet.
(Owen 1842)
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Actinopteri
- Lepisosteiformes
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Lepidotes sp.
Agassiz 1832
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Chondrichthyes
- Batoidea
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Batoidea indet.
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| "rays" | ||||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Hybodontiformes
- Hybodontidae
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Hybodontidae indet.
(Agassiz 1834)
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| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Libya |
| Coordinates: | 31.9° North, 11.0° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 16.8° North, 12.1° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| Altitude: | 660 meters |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early/Lower Cretaceous |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 2 | ||
| Key time interval: | Hauterivian - Barremian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 132.60000 - 121.40000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Cabao | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: orig. assigned to Chicla (= Kiklah) Fm., but "could be Cabao Formation" - supported by Le Loeuff et al. 2010 | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
| Disassociated minor elements: | some |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | salvage,selective quarrying,field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral 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
| Also known as: | Jabal Nafusah | ||
| Database number: | 61465 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-06-13 05:52:25 | Last modified: | 2023-07-21 14:11:33 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-06-13 05:52:25 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 23415. | ETE | F. M. Dalla Vecchia. 1995. Second record of a site with dinosaur skeletal remains in Libya (northern Africa). Natura Nascosta 11:16-21 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 17725 | ETE | F. M. Dalla Vecchia. 1996. Notizie in breve [News in brief]. Natura Nascosta 12:48 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 23414 | ETE | J. B. Smith and F. M. Dalla Vecchia. 2006. An abelisaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) tooth from the Lower Cretaceous Chicla Formation of Libya. Journal of African Earth Sciences 46:240-244 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 85347 | A. L. Souza-Júnior, C. R. A. Candeiro, L. S. Vidal, S. L. Brusatte, and M. Mortimer. 2023. Abelisauroidea (Theropoda, Dinosauria) from Africa: a review of the fossil record. Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 63:e202363019-13 [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] |