Also known as Lapparent site 7c, Chenini-Tataouine
Where: Tataouine, Tunisia (32.9° N, 10.2° E: paleocoordinates 16.2° N, 10.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Continental Intercalaire Formation, Barremian to Barremian (129.4 - 100.5 Ma)
• Beds are not easily dated but studies in the last few years agree that beds exposed in Tunisia are likely Barremian–Albian. See Fanti et al. 2012; Hamed et al. 2014; Fanti et al. 2016; Holwerda 2020
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deltaic; sandstone and claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by A. F. de Lapparent in 1951
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: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 25146: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 29.08.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Theropoda indet. theropod | |
Crocodylia indet. crocodilian | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Asteracanthus aff. ornatissimus Agassiz 1836 elasmobranch |