Qalamoun Hill, Damascus (Cretaceous of Syria)

Where: Rif Dimashq, Syria (33.8° N, 36.4° E: paleocoordinates 13.7° N, 31.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Cretaceous (100.5 - 66.0 Ma)

• "Cenomanian or uppermost Cretaceous (Turonian/Senonian) deposits"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by W. van Liere

Collection methods: surface (float),

Primary reference: D. A. Hooijer. 1968. A Cretaceous dinosaur from the Syrian Arab Republic. Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen – Amsterdam, Proceedings Series B 71(2):150-152 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 51913: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 01.07.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Tetanurae indet. Gauthier 1986 tetanuran theropod
tibia