Oulad Yahia gour, Chebbi (Cretaceous to of Algeria)

Also known as Lapparent site 6, Gour Oulad Yahya

Where: Adrar, Algeria (26.8° N, 0.8° E: paleocoordinates 16.1° N, 2.5° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pebbly Sands Member (Lower Clay-Sandstone Formation), Early/Lower Berriasian to Early/Lower Berriasian (145.0 - 99.6 Ma)

• from the Pebbly Sands (subunit A-3) of Unit A (Lower Clay-Sandstone); former "Continental Intercalaire"

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandy conglomerate

• described as "pebbly sandstone" and "conglomerate level"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A. F. de Lapparent in 1946

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: A. F. d. Lapparent. 1960. Les Dinosauriens du "Continental intercalaire" du Saharal central [The dinosaurs of the "Continental Intercalaire" of the central Sahara]. Mémoires de la Société géologique de France, nouvelle série 39(88A):1-57 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 25143: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 29.08.2002

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia - Rebbachisauridae
Rebbachisaurus tamesnensis Lapparent 1957 sauropod