Baynunah crocodilians (general) (Miocene of the United Arab Emirates)

Where: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (24.2° N, 53.0° E: paleocoordinates 22.5° N, 51.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Baynunah Formation, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; poorly lithified, ferruginous, red sandstone and carbonaceous conglomerate

• poorly consolidated sands, horizontally bedded, mainly reddish-brown in color with both sets and cosets present...thin laterallly discontinuous conglomerate, (the petrology of the conglomerate clasts is similar to that of the sands that are mature and polycyclic with sub-angular quartz, feldspars, tourmaline and micas rarely cemented with carbonate)

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Natural History Museum and Yale University in 1979 onwards

Primary reference: M. Rauhe, E. Frey, D. S. Pemberton and T. Rossmann. 1999. Fossil crocodilians from the Late Miocene Baynunah Formation of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates: osteology and palaeoecology. In P. J. Whybrow, A. Hill (eds.), Fossil vertebrates of Arabia 163-185 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 144176: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 01.05.2013

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Crocodylia - Gavialidae
Gavialidae indet., ? Ikanogavialis sp.
Gavialidae indet. crocodilian
AUH 334 (posterior part of skull)
? Ikanogavialis sp. Sill 1970 crocodilian
AUH 56 (partial right dentary)
 Crocodylia - Crocodylidae
Crocodylus sp., Crocodylus cf. niloticus
Crocodylus sp. Laurenti 1768 crocodile
AUH 285 (partial left maxilla), AUH 32 (posterior part of skull) and AUH 281 (jugal fragment) - three individuals
Crocodylus cf. niloticus Laurenti 1768 Nile crocodile
AUH 616 (partial left dentary)