An Nafud desert, Locality 2: Pleistocene, Saudi Arabia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Testudinidae
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Geochelone (Centrochelys) cf. sulcata
Miller 1779
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2 specimens | |||||||||
1 anal part of a xiphiplastron, 1 medial part of carapace (JMI 131) of a large male. | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Felidae
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Panthera cf. gombaszoegensis
(Kretzoi 1938)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
1 left 3rd metacarpal (JMI 27), assigned to species on the basis of size. | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Vulpes cf. vulpes
(Linnaeus 1758)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
1 right metatarsal (JMI 25) | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Camelidae indet.
Gray 1821
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1 specimen | |||||||||
1 maxilla with poorly preserved M1, and P3 and P4 roots. | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Bovidae informal indet. 1
Gray 1821
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1 specimen | |||||||||
The rear part of a skull (JMI 38). | ||||||||||
Bovidae informal indet. 2
Gray 1821
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1 specimen | |||||||||
The base of a left spiralled horn-core (ANA 49) | ||||||||||
Alcelaphini indet.
Brookes 1876
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a few isolated lower and upper molars. | ||||||||||
Oryx sp.
de Blainville 1816
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cranial, dental and skeletal specimens. | ||||||||||
Actinopteri
- Osteoglossiformes
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Osteoglossiformes indet.
Berg 1940
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1 specimen | |||||||||
posterior part of a maxilla (JMI 134) | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Saudi Arabia |
Coordinates: | 27.1° North, 39.1° East (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 26.9° 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: | 2.58800 - 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: | siltstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: The bones from locality 2 come from a thin siltstone layer interbedded between the ancient eolian sand and a dm-thick bed of of lacustrine carbonate. | |
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 2 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: | 48858 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Turner | Enterer: | H. O'Regan |
Modifier: | H. O'Regan | Research group: | PACED |
Created: | 2005-04-01 05:20:58 | Last modified: | 2005-04-01 08:38:54 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-04-01 05:20:58 |
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] |