Where: Tataouine, Tunisia (32.9° N, 10.3° E: paleocoordinates 16.0° N, 8.8° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Neolobites medeninensis ammonoid zone, Kerker Member (Zebbag Formation), Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)
• 15 m below the top of the Kerker Member, several layers with tracks
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; fine-grained, dolomitic, yellow sandstone and limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: trace
Collected in 2004, 2010–2011
• Field data presented in this study were collected between February 2010 and March 2011. A mold of the two trackswasmade using SILICAL 110 silicone rubber. A fiberglass cast of the mold was also produced and deposited at the Museo Geologico Giovanni Capellini in Bologna (Italy) (accession number MGGC 21855).
Primary reference: M. Contessi. 2013. First report of mammal-like tracks from the Cretaceous of North Africa (Tunisia). Cretaceous Research 42(1):48-54 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 140887: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 18.03.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Mammalia | |
Mammalia indet. Linnaeus 1758 mammal Small (less than 3 cm long), robust (short and relatively large), pentadactyl and semi-digitigrade manus and pes impressions of a quadrupedal trackmaker
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Reptilia | |
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Aves | |
Koreanaornis sp. Kim 1969 bird Two superimposed footprints (epirelief) and one isolated footprint preserved on a stromatolitic surface
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Bivalvia | |
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam |