Wadi Ramon, Beneckeia beds (Triassic of Israel)

Where: Israel (30.3° N, 34.8° E: paleocoordinates 14.3° S, 34.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Levantina Member (Gevanim Formation), Pelsonian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: O. Rieppel. 2001. A new species of Tanystropheus (Reptilia: Protorosauria) from the Middle Triassic of Makhtesh Ramon, Israel. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 221(2):271-287 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 182566: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 08.11.2016

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Diapsida - Tanystropheidae
Tanystropheus haasi n. sp. Rieppel 2001 archosauromorph
HUJ-Pal TR 1 (holotype), vertebra. Referred cervical vertebrae.