Also known as Zella
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: O. Fejfar. 1987. Oligocene rodents from Zallah Oasis, Libya. Münchner Geowissenschaftliche Abhandlungen A 10:265-268 [P. Coster/P. Coster/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 176458: authorized by Pauline Coster, entered by Pauline Coster on 12.02.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
"Phiomys paraphiomyoides" = Neophiomys paraphiomyoides
"Phiomys paraphiomyoides" = Neophiomys paraphiomyoides Wood 1968 cane rat | |
Metaphiomys schaubi Wood 1968 rodent
Phiomys andrewsi Osborn 1908 rodent |