PRC NF001, Nalut (Cretaceous to of Libya)

Where: Ghadamis, Libya (31.9° N, 11.0° E: paleocoordinates 16.8° N, 12.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Cabao Formation, Hauterivian to Hauterivian (132.9 - 125.0 Ma)

• near top of formation; regarded as correlative with Douiret Fm in Tunisia but later considered to underlie that formation (Le Loeuff et al. 2010).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "channel"; poorly lithified, tabular, medium-grained, coarse, white sandstone and lenticular, pebbly sandstone

• bones from "within a thick sequence of buff-white colored, poorly cemented, medium to coarse-grained, tabular cross-bedded sandstone near the top of the Cabao Formation (~17 m below the unconformable contact with the Chicla Formation). The associated bones were preserved in a ~3 m wide lens of pebbly sandstone and vertebrate fossil clasts that we interpret as a channel deposit."

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 2005

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• Joint Libyan-American Expedition

Primary reference: J. B. Smith, M. C. Lamanna, A. S. Askar, K. A. Bergig, S. O. Tshakreen, M. M. Abugares, and D. T. Rasmussen. 2010. A large abelisauroid theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Libya. Journal of Paleontology 84(5):927-934 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 104802: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 10.02.2011

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Abelisauroidea indet.
Abelisauroidea indet. Bonaparte 1991 ceratosaur
PRC.NF.1.21 (two incomplete dorsal vertebrae, a centrum of a proximal caudal vertebra, the caudal part of a neural arch, the distal part of a right femur, and a well preserved right tibia)