List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri
- Lepisosteiformes
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Lepidotes sp.
Agassiz 1832
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Reptilia
- Crocodylomorpha
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Crocodylomorpha indet.
(Hay 1930)
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Reptilia
- Theropoda
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Theropoda indet.
Marsh 1881
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Chondrichthyes
- Hybodontiformes
- Hybodontidae
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Priohybodus arambourgi
d'Erasmo 1960
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200 isolated, complete and fragmentary crowns | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Libya |
Coordinates: | 31.9° North, 11.0° East (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 14.7° North, 10.7° East |
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
Altitude: | 660 meters |
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | "cross stratification" sandstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: Clastic rocks dominated by light, friable, cross-bedded quartz sandstones | |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Geology comments: An overstepping continental clastic sequence. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | salvage,selective quarrying,survey of museum collection | ||
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic 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
Database number: | 139439 | ||
Authorizer: | P. Mannion | Enterer: | J. Tennant | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2013-02-12 01:53:44 | Last modified: | 2013-02-11 08:53:44 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2013-02-12 01:53:44 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
44830. | C. J. Duffin. 2001. The hybodont shark, Priohybodus d'Erasmo, 1960, (Early Cretaceous, northern Africa). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 133:303-308 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant] |