Also known as Ksar Kerachfa
Where: Medinine, Tunisia (33.2° N, 10.3° E: paleocoordinates 16.4° N, 11.1° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Continental Intercalaire Formation, Barremian to Barremian (129.4 - 100.5 Ma)
• 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
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandy, calcareous conglomerate
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),
• Some coprolites as well.
Primary reference: T. Schlüter and W. Schwarzhans. 1978. Eine Bonebed-Lagerstätte aus dem Wealden Süd-Tunisiens (Umgebung Ksar Krerachfa) [A bonebed from the Wealden of southern Tunisia (near Ksar Krerachfa)]. Berliner Geowissenschaften Abhandlungen A 8:53-65 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 166013: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 02.02.2015, edited by Melanie Gagucas
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Cycadophyta indet. Bessey 1907 | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Hybodontidae indet. Agassiz 1834 elasmobranch | |
Odontaspis sp. Agassiz 1838 sand tiger shark | |
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Osteichthyes | |
"Ceratodus africanus" = Neoceratodus africanus
"Ceratodus africanus" = Neoceratodus africanus Haug 1905 Queensland lungfish | |
Coelacanthimorpha | |
Mawsonia sp. Mawson and Woodward 1907 coelacanth | |
Reptilia | |
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"Crocodilia indet." = Crocodylia, cf. Machimosaurus sp.
"Crocodilia indet." = Crocodylia Owen 1842 crocodilian
cf. Machimosaurus sp. marine crocodile | |
cf. Steneosaurus sp. Saint-Hilaire 1825 marine crocodile | |
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cf. Carcharodontosaurus sp. Stromer 1931 allosauroid | |
Sauropoda indet. sauropod | |
Pisces | |
"Pisces indet." = Osteichthyes
"Pisces indet." = Osteichthyes Huxley 1880 bony fish | |
Actinopteri | |
"Lepidotus sp." = Lepidotes
"Lepidotus sp." = Lepidotes Agassiz 1832 gar |