Amphibian Hill: Berriasian - Aptian, Israel
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Polypodiopsida
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Cladophlebis cf. dunberi
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Cladophlebis cf. browniana
(Dunker 1846)
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Polypodiopsida
- Gleicheniales
- Matoniaceae
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Weichselia reticulata
(Stokes and Webb 1824)
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Nevo 1956 | |||||||||
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Coniferales
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Desmiophyllum sp.
Lesquereux 1878
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Schizolepis sp.
Braun 1847
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Equisetopsida
- Araucariaceae
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Brachyphyllum obesum
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Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
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Ramonellus longispinus n. gen., n. sp.
Nevo and Estes 1969
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Nevo and Estes 1969 | |||||||||
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Thoraciliacus rostriceps n. gen., n. sp.
Nevo 1968
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Nevo 1968 | 800 specimens | ||||||||
| originally entered as "Thoraciliacus rostricepts" | ||||||||||
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Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Pipidae
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Pipidae indet.
Gray 1825
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Polcyn et al. 1999 | |||||||||
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Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
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Cordicephalus gracilis n. gen., n. sp.
Nevo 1968
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Nevo 1968 | 49 specimens | ||||||||
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Cordicephalus longicostatus n. sp.
Nevo 1968
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Nevo 1968 | 14 specimens | ||||||||
| synonym of Cordicephalus gracilis | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Dinosauria
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Dinosauria indet.
Owen 1842
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Polcyn et al. 1999 | |||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Israel | State/province: | Negev |
| Coordinates: | 30.5° North, 34.7° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 6.8° North, 29.8° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early/Lower Cretaceous |
| *Period: | Jurassic | ||
| *International age/stage: | Tithonian - Maastrichtian | ||
| Key time interval: | Berriasian - Aptian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 145.00000 - 113.00000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Hatira | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: time_unit, ETE age comment: . radiometric intage_max, radiometric intage_min
"pre-Albian, probably Neocomian" (Nevo and Estes 1969) also said to be from the Nubian Formation | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | planar lamination siltstone |
| Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: . fine-grained, laminated, lacustrine deposit associated with the Ramon basalt fossiliferous rock at main outcrop "consists of several thousand fine, varve-like alternating dark limonitic and light silty laminations" | |
| Environment: | lacustrine - small |
| Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: lacustrine_sm, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: airfall, ETE env comment: .
"a small, shallow freshwater lake having an outlet" (Nevo and Estes 1969) | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,mold/impression,adpression |
| Lagerst�tten type: | concentrate |
| Degree of concentration: | concentrated |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | excellent |
| Articulated whole bodies: | many |
| Associated major elements: | many |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Collection size: | 890 specimens |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: ETE Size: .; ETE reference list: 478, ; ETE museum list:
"some 900 adult frogs and 16 salamanders have been collected as well as two dinosaurian teeth and plant remains" (Nevo and Estes 1969) | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | ETE Locality 1508; Makhtesh Ramon | ||
| Database number: | 22634 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Behrensmeyer, E. Fara | Enterer: | A. Behrensmeyer, E. Fara |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2001-03-27 01:00:00 | Last modified: | 2008-11-08 10:53:00 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2001-03-27 01:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 13344. | A. Nevo. 1964. Fossil urodeles in Early Lower Cretaceous deposits of Makhtesh Ramon, Israel. Nature 201(4917):415-416 [E. Fara/E. Fara/E. Fara] |
Secondary references:
| 13343 | A. Nevo. 1956. Fossil frogs from a Lower Cretaceous bed in southern Israel (Central Negev). Nature 178(4543):1191-1192 [E. Fara/E. Fara/E. Fara] | |
| 5727 | ETE 1483 | E. Nevo. 1968. Pipid frogs from the early Cretaceous of Israel and pipid evolution. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 136(80):255-318 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/J. Alroy] |
| 28355 | E. Nevo and R. Estes. 1969. Ramonellus longispinus, an Early Cretaceous salamander from Israel. Copeia 1969(3):540-547 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
| 4203 | 5% 320 | M. J. Polcyn, E. Tchernov, and L.L. Jacobs. 1999. The Cretaceous biogeography of the Eastern Mediterranean with a description of a new basal mosasauroid from 'Ein Yabrud, Israel. in Y. Tomida, T.H. Rich and P. Vickers-Rich, eds., Proceedings of the Second Gondwanan Dinosaur Symposium. National Science Museum Monographs, Tokyo, Japan. (15)259-290 [E. Fara/E. Fara/E. Fara] |