Bestadesse (BST) site (Jurassic of Ethiopia)

Also known as Besola River Valley; Alem Ketema; UCMP V98254

Where: Amhara, Ethiopia (10.3° N, 39.0° E: paleocoordinates 11.7° S, 25.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Mugher Mudstone Formation, Tithonian (152.1 - 145.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; fine-grained, medium, intraclastic, brown sandstone

• ∼2-m-thick, cross-bedded, fine- to medium-grained tan sandstone that contains lenses of coarser clasts. These lenses contain granule to pebble-sized intraformational clasts

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: M. B. Goodwin, R. B. Irmis, G. P. Wilson, D. G. DeMar, Jr., K. Melstrom, C. Rasmussen, B. Atnafu, T. Alemu, M. Alemayehu and S. G. Chernet. 2019. The first confirmed sauropod dinosaur from Ethiopia discovered in the Upper Jurassic Mugher Mudstone. Journal of African Earth Sciences [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 203123: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 30.07.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Actinopteri
 Actinopterygia -
"Actinopterygia indet." = Actinopteri
"Actinopterygia indet." = Actinopteri Cope 1871
Scales, teeth and other skeletal elements
Reptilia
 Saurischia - Brachiosauridae
Brachiosauridae indet.
Brachiosauridae indet. Riggs 1904 brachiosaurid
BST VP-1/1 (tooth)
 Testudinata -
Testudinata indet.
Testudinata indet. Oppel 1811 turtle
Shell elements
Chondrichthyes
 Hybodontiformes - Hybodontidae
Hybodontidae indet.
Hybodontidae indet. Agassiz 1834 elasmobranch
Teeth