Bestadesse (BST) site: Tithonian, Ethiopia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Chondrichthyes
- Hybodontiformes
- Hybodontidae
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Reptilia
- Brachiosauridae
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Reptilia
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Testudinata indet.
(Oppel 1811)
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Actinopteri
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Geography
| Country: | Ethiopia | State/province: | Amhara | County: | North Shewa (Amhara) |
| Coordinates: | 10.3° North, 39.0° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 19.4° South, 36.8° East (Wright 2013) | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Late Jurassic |
| Stage: | Tithonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Tithonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 149.2 - 143.1 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Mugher Mudstone |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "cross stratification",fine,medium,intraclastic,brown sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: ∼2-m-thick, cross-bedded, fine- to medium-grained tan sandstone that contains lenses of coarser clasts. These lenses contain granule to pebble-sized intraformational clasts | |
| Environment: | fluvial-lacustrine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils,microfossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Museum repositories: | UCMP |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Besola River Valley; Alem Ketema; UCMP V98254 | ||
| Database number: | 203123 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Mannion | Enterer: | P. Mannion |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2019-07-30 04:40:19 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2019-07-30 04:40:19 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 69635. | M. B. Goodwin, R. B. Irmis, G. P. Wilson, D. G. DeMar, Jr., K. Melstrom, C. Rasmussen, B. Atnafu, T. Alemu, M. Alemayehu and S. G. Chernet. 2019. The first confirmed sauropod dinosaur from Ethiopia discovered in the Upper Jurassic Mugher Mudstone. Journal of African Earth Sciences [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] |