List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Megalosaurus sp.
Parkinson 1822
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| "another species of Megalosaurus" | ||||||||||
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= Elaphrosaurus iguidiensis
Lapparent 1957
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Lapparent 1960 | |||||||||
| nomen dubium belonging to Theropoda | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Testudines
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Testudines indet.
Batsch 1788
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Tunisia | State/province: | Tataouine |
| Coordinates: | 32.8° North, 10.3° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 16.1° North, 10.9° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Altitude: | 460 meters | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Continental Intercalaire | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Beds are not easily dated but studies in the last few years agree that beds exposed in Tunisia are likely Barremian–Albian. See Fanti et al. 2012; Hamed et al. 2014; Fanti et al. 2016; Holwerda 2020 | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "gypsum beds" within the sandstones | |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
| Disassociated minor elements: | some |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some genera,some macrofossils,species names | ||
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (float),surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection | ||
| Collection size: | 2 specimens | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Collectors: | A. F. de Lapparent | Collection dates: | Jan 1951 |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Lapparent site 7b, Douiret, Dahar, Chenini-Douirat | ||
| Database number: | 25145 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | G. Varnham | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2002-08-29 15:57:06 | Last modified: | 2022-03-15 05:23:37 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-08-29 15:57:06 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 30615. | ETE | A. F. d. Lapparent. 1951. Découverte de Dinosauriens, associés à une faune de Reptiles et de Poissons, dans le Crétacé inférieur de l'Extrême Sud tunisien [Discovery of dinosaurs associated with a reptile and fish fauna in the Lower Cretaceous of extreme southern Tunisia]. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences à Paris 232:1430-1432 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 45858 | A. F. d. Lapparent. 1957. The Cretaceous dinosaurs of Africa and India. Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 2:109-112 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 7056 | A. F. d. Lapparent. 1960. Les Dinosauriens du "Continental intercalaire" du Saharal central [The dinosaurs of the "Continental Intercalaire" of the central Sahara]. Mémoires de la Société géologique de France, nouvelle série 39(88A):1-57 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 45935 | A. F. d. Lapparent. 1960. Les dinosaures du Sahara central [The dinosaurs of the central Sahara]. Travaux de l'Institut de Recherches Sahariennes 19(1–2):7-24 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 70903 | P. Taquet. 2010. The dinosaurs of Maghreb: the history of their discovery. Historical Biology 22(1–3):88-99 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |