Touil el Mhahir (Douiret): Hauterivian - Barremian, Tunisia
collected 2014
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Echinoidea
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Echinoidea indet.
(Leske 1778)
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Chondrichthyes
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Elasmobranchii indet.
(Bonaparte 1838)
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unclassified
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Actinopterygii indet.
(Cope 1887)
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Reptilia
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Pterosauria indet.
(Kaup 1834)
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Machimosaurus rex n. sp.
Fanti et al. 2016
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| ONM NG NG 1-25, 80, 81, and 83-87 - type (skull and vertebrae); a partial dentary with in situ teeth referable to a juvenile individual | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Testudines
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Testudines indet.
Batsch 1788
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| "abundant, disarticulated elements from large turtle carapaces, plastrons and vertebrae" | ||||||||||
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Dipnoi
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Dipnoi indet.
(Müller 1884)
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Scaphopoda
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Scaphopoda indet.
Bronn 1862
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Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet.
Cuvier 1795
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Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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Geography
| Country: | Tunisia | State/province: | Tataouine |
| Coordinates: | 32.7° North, 10.2° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 17.8° North, 11.9° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early/Lower Cretaceous |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 2 | ||
| Key time interval: | Hauterivian - Barremian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 132.60000 - 121.40000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Merbah el Asfer | Formation: | Douiret | Member: | Douiret Sand |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: approximately 20 m above the fossil-rich conglomerate that, on a basin scale, marks the base of the Douiret Formation | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | fine sandstone |
| Secondary lithology: | claystone |
| Lithology description: fine-grained sand and clay | |
| Environment: | marginal marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | Collection dates: | December 2014 |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Touil el Mra | ||
| Database number: | 175797 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Mannion | Enterer: | P. Mannion |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | ||
| Created: | 2016-01-11 11:16:25 | Last modified: | 2022-08-25 10:51:23 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2016-01-11 11:16:25 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 57576. | F. Fanti, T. Miyashita, L. Cantelli, F. Mnasri, J. Dridi, M. Contessi, and A. Cau. 2016. The largest thalattosuchian (Crocodylomorpha) supports teleosaurid survival across the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary. Cretaceous Research [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] |