Also known as Jemma River
Where: Shewa, Ethiopia (9.5° N, 38.6° E: paleocoordinates 12.3° S, 24.8° E)
• coordinate based on unpublished field data
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Mugher Mudstone Formation, Tithonian (152.1 - 145.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; mudstone
Size class: mesofossils
Reposited in the UCMP
Primary reference: M. B. Goodwin, W. A. Clemens, J. H. Hutchison, C. B. Wood, M. S. Zavada, A. Kemp, C. J. Duffin and C. R. Schaff. 1999. Mesozoic continental vertebrates with associated palynostratigraphic dates from the northwestern Ethiopian plateau. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 19(4):728-741 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 48832: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 30.03.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Pleurosternidae indet. Cope 1868 turtle | |
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Pelomedusidae indet. Cope 1868 sideneck turtle | |
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Tetanurae indet. Gauthier 1986 tetanuran theropod | |
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aff. Dromaeosaurinae indet. Matthew and Brown 1922 maniraptoran "possible dromaeosaurine affinities"
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Mesoeucrocodylia indet. Whetstone and Whybrow 1983 crocodilian | |
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Goniopholis sp. Owen 1842 crocodilian | |
| Osteichthyes | |
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Ceratodontidae indet. Gill 1872 lungfish | |