An Nafud desert, Locality 1: Pleistocene, Saudi Arabia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Mammalia
- Hippopotamidae
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? Hexaprotodon sp.
Falconer and Cautley 1836
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| Tarsal and carpal bones, plus a complete 5th metacarpal (JM 301) which is slender, therefore tentatively assigned to Hexaprotodon. | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Pelorovis cf. oldowayensis
Reck 1928
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Alcelaphini indet.
Brookes 1876
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| a few isolated lower and upper molars. | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Saudi Arabia |
| Coordinates: | 27.1° North, 39.0° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 27.0° North, 38.9° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 2.58000 - 0.01170 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphy comments: The faunal remains come from lacustrine deposits which overlie an ancient dune system and the Middle Miocene Ajfar Formation. |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | gray marl |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: The bones from locality 1 come from a light gray marl at the surface of the lacustrine deposit. | |
| Environment: | lacustrine indet. |
| Geology comments: The lacustrine deposits fill concave depressions on top of the old white eolian sand and are commonly covered laterally by the present dune system; this indicates that they were formed in several isolated lakes which were probably not synchronous. | |
Taphonomy
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: Locality 1 was discovered in 1995. A total of 'a few hundred specimens' have been recovered from the three localities together. | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | An Nafoud | ||
| Database number: | 48857 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Turner | Enterer: | H. O'Regan |
| Modifier: | H. O'Regan | Research group: | PACED |
| Created: | 2005-04-01 05:09:18 | Last modified: | 2005-04-01 08:46:54 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-04-01 05:09:18 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 13025. | PACED | H. Thomas, D. Geraads, D. Janjou, D. Vaslet, A. Mesmesh, D. Billiou, H. Bocherens, G. Dobigny, V. Eisenmann, M. Gayet, F. Lapparent Broin, G. Petter, and M. Halawani. 1998. First Pleistocene faunas from the Arabian Peninsula: An Nafud desert, Saudi Arabia. Comptes Rendus Academie des Sciences, Paris, Sciences de la terre et des planetes 326:145-152 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/M. Carrano] |