Also known as Beth Zayit

Where: Jerusalem, Israel (31.8° N, 35.2° E: paleocoordinates 8.0° N, 29.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Gallic to Gallic (125.8 - 93.5 Ma)

• "track-bearing layer...is below the Mozza marls, which present the lowest part of a fossiliferous series of Middle to Upper Cenomanian; the complex of which the dinosaur beds are part is 200-250 m thick and is underlined by marine layers of Albian age." Formation is not named, but is below the "middle Cenomanian Acanthoceras beds." (Note that "Mozza marls" = "Moza marl".)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; yellow, argillaceous limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Collected by M. Sofer

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• Tracks occur on an 80 sq-m slab.

Primary reference: M. Avnimelech. 1962. Dinosaur tracks in the Lower Cenomanian of Jerusalem. Nature 196(4851):264 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 28227: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 30.01.2003

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