Main vertebrate spot: Zanclean, Libya

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Elephantidae indet. Gray 1821
Mammalia - Sirenia
Sirenia indet. (Illiger 1811)
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equidae indet. Gray 1821
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Rhinocerotidae indet. Gray 1821
Actinopteri - Acanthopteri - Sphyraenidae
Sphyraenidae indet.
Actinopteri - Labriformes - Labridae
Labridae indet. (Cuvier 1816)
Actinopteri - Perciformes - Sparidae
? Archosargus sp. Gill 1865
Actinopteri - Tetraodontiformes - Diodontidae
cf. Diodon sp. Linnaeus 1758
or Chilomycterus sp.
Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Dasyatidae
Taeniura sp. Miller and Henle 1837
Dasyatis cf. centroura (Mitchill 1814)
Dasyatis cf. ? centroura
Dasyatis cf. pastinaca (Linnaeus 1758)
Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Aetobatidae
Aetobatus sp. Blainville 1816
Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Myliobatidae
Pteromylaeus sp. Garman 1913
Myliobatis sp. Cuvier 1816
Chondrichthyes - Rhinopristiformes - Pristidae
Anoxypristis sp. White and Moy-Thomas 1941
Chondrichthyes - Rhinopristiformes - Rhynchobatidae
Rhynchobatus sp. Müller and Henle 1837
Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes - Rhinobatidae
Rhinobatos sp. Link 1790
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Galeocerdidae
Galeocerdo cuvier Peron and LeSueur 1822
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Sphyrnidae
Sphyrna sp. Rafinesque 1810
Sphyrna aff. zygaena (Linnaeus 1758)
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Scyliorhinidae
Scyliorhinus sp. Blainville 1816
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae
Negaprion aff. brevirostris Poey 1868
Carcharhinus sp. de Blainville 1816
Rhizoprionodon aff. acutus
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Hemigaleidae
? Paragaleus sp. Budker 1935
or ? Chaenogaleus sp.
Hemipristis serra Agassiz 1835
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Alopiidae
Alopias aff. vulpinus (Bonnaterre 1788)
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Otodontidae
Megaselachus megalodon (Agassiz 1835)
recombined as Otodus megalodon
Also studied in Pimiento and Balk
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Cosmopolitodus hastalis (Agassiz 1838)
recombined as Carcharodon hastalis
Carcharodon carcharias (Linnaeus 1758)
Isurus aff. oxyrinchus Rafinesque 1810
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Carchariidae
Carcharias aff. taurus Rafinesque 1810
see common names

Geography
Country:Libya
Coordinates: 32.7° North, 14.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.6° North, 13.8° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
Stage:Zanclean 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Zanclean
Age range of interval:5.33300 - 3.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: early Pliocene
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:coarse,pebbly sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: coarse-grained sand to fine-grained conglomerate
Environment:lagoonal
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:136597
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:C. Pimiento Research group:vertebrate
Created:2012-11-30 08:37:13 Last modified:2014-08-20 15:34:16
Access level:the public Released:2013-05-30 08:37:13
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
43697. T. Pawellek, S. Adnet, H. Cappetta, E. Metais, M. Salem, M. Brunet, and J.-J. Jaeger. 2012. Discovery of an earliest Pliocene relic tropical fish fauna in a newly detected cliff section (Sabratah Basin, NW Libya). Neues Jahrbuch for Geologie und Palaontologie Abhandlungen 266(2):93-114 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

49081 C. Pimiento and M. Balk. 2015. The extinct giant shark Carcharocles megalodon: A model for understanding deep-time body size trends of marine apex predators. [C. Jaramillo/C. Pimiento/C. Pimiento]