As Sahabi, Sirtica (Miocene of Libya)

Also known as Crocodylus checchiai type

Where: Libya (30.5° N, 17.5° E: paleocoordinates 30.3° N, 17.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Sahabi Formation, Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C. Petrocchi in 1938, 1939

Primary reference: A. M. Maccagno. 1947. Descrizione di una nuova specie di ‘Crocodilus’ del giacimento di Sahabi (Sirtica). Atti della Reale Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei: Memorie della Classe di Scienze fisiche, Mathematiche e Naturale, Serie 8 1(2):61-96 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 144638: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 14.05.2013, edited by Mark Uhen

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Crocodylia - Crocodylidae
Crocodylus checchiai n. sp. Maccagno 1947 crocodile
Type - Istituto di Paleontologia dell’Università di Roma (now apparently lost [skull and lower jaw]); referred material: three skulls lost/destroyed originally in the Museum of Natural History of Tripoli; one cranium - sn813/lj (ex MPURLS)
Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Stegotetrabelodon syrticus n. sp. Petrocchi 1941 elephant