Also known as Zallah
Where: Libya (28.5° N, 17.6° E: paleocoordinates 26.1° N, 15.2° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Oligocene (33.9 - 23.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial-deltaic; conglomerate
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods:
•collected by "screening"
Primary reference: C. Arambourg and P. Magnier. 1961. Gisements de Vertebres dans le bassin teriaire de Syrte (Libye). Comptes Rendus de Academie des Sciences 252:1181-1183 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 154222: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 03.02.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Elasmobranchii | |
Selachii indet. shark | |
Reptilia | |
Crocodylia indet. crocodilian | |
Testudines indet. Batsch 1788 turtle | |
Mammalia | |
"Megalohyrax palaeotherioides" = Titanohyrax palaeotherioides
"Megalohyrax palaeotherioides" = Titanohyrax palaeotherioides Schlosser 1911 hyrax | |
Phiomia wintoni proboscidean | |
Palaeomastodon sp. Andrews 1901 proboscidean | |
Brachyodus cf. gorringei anthracothere |