Also known as ETE Locality 1508; Makhtesh Ramon
Where: Negev, Israel (30.5° N, 34.7° E: paleocoordinates 6.8° N, 29.8° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Hatira Formation, Berriasian to Berriasian (145.0 - 113.0 Ma)
• ETE dating method: time_unit, ETE age comment: . radiometric intage_max, radiometric intage_min
•"pre-Albian, probably Neocomian" (Nevo and Estes 1969)
•also said to be from the Nubian Formation
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine - small; siltstone
•"a small, shallow freshwater lake having an outlet" (Nevo and Estes 1969)
•fine-grained, laminated, lacustrine deposit associated with the Ramon basalt
•fossiliferous rock at main outcrop "consists of several thousand fine, varve-like alternating dark limonitic and light silty laminations"
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, adpression
Collection methods: ETE Size: .; ETE reference list: 478, ; ETE museum list:
•"some 900 adult frogs and 16 salamanders have been collected as well as two dinosaurian teeth and plant remains" (Nevo and Estes 1969)
Primary reference: A. Nevo. 1964. Fossil urodeles in Early Lower Cretaceous deposits of Makhtesh Ramon, Israel. Nature 201(4917):415-416 [E. Fara/E. Fara/E. Fara]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 22634: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 27.03.2001, edited by Emmanuel Fara
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Desmiophyllum sp. Lesquereux 1878
Schizolepis sp. Braun 1847 | |
Polypodiopsida | |
Cladophlebis cf. browniana Dunker 1846 | |
Weichselia reticulata1 Stokes and Webb 1824 | |
Equisetopsida | |
Reptilia | |
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Amphibia | |
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Thoraciliacus rostriceps n. gen. n. sp.2, "Cordicephalus gracilis n. gen. n. sp." = Cordicephalus gracilis2, "Cordicephalus longicostatus n. sp." = Cordicephalus gracilis2
Thoraciliacus rostriceps n. gen. n. sp.2 Nevo 1968 frog originally entered as "Thoraciliacus rostricepts"
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Ramonellus longispinus n. gen. n. sp.3
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