Beit El (Cretaceous to of Palestinian Territory)

Where: Palestinian Territory (32.0° N, 35.2° E: paleocoordinates 10.7° N, 29.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Cenomanian to Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• Bet Meir or the slightly younger Amminadava Formation, middle part of the Judea Group, early to middle Cenomanian, early Late Cretaceous.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: State Museum of Natural History Karlsruhe

Primary reference: J. J. Cawley and J. Kriwet. 2018. A new pycnodont fish, Scalacurvichthys naishi gen. et sp. nov., from the Late Cretaceous of Israel. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 16(8):659-673 [M. Clapham/S. Hegde/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 221654: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 18.08.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Pycnodontiformes - Pycnodontidae
Scalacurvichthys naishi n. gen. n. sp.
Scalacurvichthys naishi n. gen. n. sp. Cawley and Kriwet 2018
SMNK-PAL.8613