Judeasaurus type locality, Judean Hills (Cretaceous to of Israel)

Where: Israel (31.7° N, 35.2° E: paleocoordinates 11.5° N, 29.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Judea Group, Middle Cenomanian to Middle Cenomanian (99.6 - 89.3 Ma)

• "mid-Cenomanian to lower Turonian... either the Laminated Limestone ('Dir Yasin') Member of the Kefar Sha'ul Formation or the lower member of the Bina Formation ('Mizzi Ahmar')" and the former possibiility is "the most probable"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified, ferruginous, gray limestone

• "The mineral composition suggests that the depositional environment was shallow, low-energy, marine water with little or no terrigenous input. Conspicuous, red, iron-rich bands and lack of bioturbation also confirm low-energy deposition.... high occurrence of planktonic foraminifera suggests a connection to open marine environment... [immediate environment was] a local basin or a continental shelf"
• "pinkish-grey limestone... Clay and dolomite are rare [within the matrix]" and there is "a high density of planktonic ooze"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: "collected by an enthusiast and donated to the palaeontological collections of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem"

Primary reference: A. Haber and M. J. Polcyn. 2005. A new marine varanoid from the Cenomanian of the Middle East. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 84(3):247-255 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 84995: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 19.11.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Squamata -
Judeasaurus tchernovi n. gen. n. sp.
Judeasaurus tchernovi n. gen. n. sp. Haber and Polcyn 2005 squamates