Jebel El Mra (Cretaceous of Tunisia)

Also known as Tataouinea hannibalis type

Where: Tataouine, Tunisia (32.7° N, 10.2° E: paleocoordinates 15.2° N, 9.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Oum ed Diab Member (Aïn el Guettar Formation), Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• lower deposits of member, ca. 5 m above base

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; fine-grained sandstone and claystone

• Estuarine to shallow marine deposit
• Fine-graded sandstones with herringbone cross-bedding, symmetrical wave-formed ripples and discontinuous clay lenses

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: F. Fanti, A. Cau, M. Hassine and M. Contessi. 2013. A new sauropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Tunisia with extreme avian-like pneumatization. Nature Communications 4(2080):1-7 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 147575: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 09.07.2013, edited by Matthew Carrano

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Saurischia - Rebbachisauridae
Tataouinea hannibalis n. gen. n. sp.
Tataouinea hannibalis n. gen. n. sp. Fanti et al. 2013 sauropod
ONM DT 1–36 - holotype (sacrum, the five anteriormost caudal vertebrae, both ilia, both ischia)
 Ornithischia -
Hadrosauroidea indet.
Hadrosauroidea indet. Huene 1954 ornithopod
MGGC TUN 153, 154, 155, teeth