Soukhneh: Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian, Syria
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
|
Actinopteri
- Aulopiformes
- Enchodontidae
|
||||||||||
|
Enchodus elegans
Dartevelle and Casier 1949
|
||||||||||
|
Reptilia
- Mosasauridae
|
||||||||||
|
Mosasauridae indet.
Gervais 1852
|
||||||||||
|
Mosasaurus beaugei
Arambourg 1952
|
Bardet 2012 | |||||||||
| MNHN 1938-2, unpublished damaged dentary broken in several fragments, a vertebra and other indeterminate bones | ||||||||||
|
Mosasaurus lemonnieri
Dollo 1889
|
Bardet 2012 | |||||||||
| MNHN-BAR1, teeth | ||||||||||
|
Globidens phosphaticus
Bardet et al. 2005
|
Bardet 2012 | |||||||||
| MNHN-KHN10, tooth | ||||||||||
|
Prognathodon sp.
Dollo 1889
|
Bardet 2012 | |||||||||
| MNHN-KHN9, tooth | ||||||||||
|
Prognathodon giganteus
Dollo 1889
|
Bardet 2012 | |||||||||
| MNHN-KHN7 is an isolated tooth | ||||||||||
|
Plioplatecarpini indet.
Russell 1967
|
Bardet 2012 | |||||||||
| MNHN-KHN8a-b consist of isolated jaw fragments with associated characteristic teeth | ||||||||||
|
Platecarpus ptychodon
Arambourg 1952
|
Bardet 2012 | |||||||||
| nomen dubium belonging to Plioplatecarpinae | ||||||||||
| MNHN-CHB4 is a tooth | ||||||||||
|
Reptilia
- Testudines
|
||||||||||
|
Chelonii indet.
Latreille 1800
|
||||||||||
| synonym of Testudines | ||||||||||
|
Reptilia
- Plesiosauria
- Elasmosauridae
|
||||||||||
|
Elasmosauridae indet.
Cope 1869
|
||||||||||
|
Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Anacoracidae
|
||||||||||
|
Squalicorax bassanii
|
||||||||||
|
Chondrichthyes
- Rajiformes
- Sclerorhynchidae
|
||||||||||
|
Schizorhiza stromeri
Weiler 1930
|
||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Syria |
| Coordinates: | 34.8° North, 38.8° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 16.3° North, 33.5° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 83.60000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | phosphatic phosphorite |
| Secondary lithology: | "limestone" |
| Environment: | carbonate indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:Specimens housed in the Université de Montpellier (UM-Collection Syrie) and Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris (MNHN-Collection Syrie) | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 117863 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Mannion | Enterer: | P. Mannion, J. Tennant |
| Created: | 2011-09-28 00:32:35 | Last modified: | 2011-09-27 10:32:35 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2011-09-28 00:32:35 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 37884. | N. Bardet, H. Cappetta, X. Pereda Suberbiola, M. Mouty, A. K. Al Maleh, A. M. Ahmed, O. Khrata and N. Gannoum. 2000. The marine vertebrate faunas from the Late Cretaceous phosphates of Syria. Geological Magazine 137(3):269-290 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] |
Secondary references:
| 46107 | N. Bardet. 2012. The mosasaur collections of the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle of Paris. Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France 183(1):35-53 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant] |