Sbeitla: Serravallian - Tortonian, Tunisia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Crocodylidae
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Crocodylidae indet.
Cuvier 1807
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Geography
| Country: | Tunisia | State/province: | Gafsa |
| Coordinates: | 35.0° North, 9.0° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 34.7° North, 8.5° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| Key time interval: | Serravallian - Tortonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 13.82000 - 7.24600 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Beglia | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: No information available on location of Sbeitla site within the Beglia Formation. The Beglia Formation is thought to span the earliest Late Miocene (Vindobonian) from approximately 12.5-9.5 Ma.
Mannaï-Tayech 2009: underlying Beglia sands were dated Serravallian to Lower Tortonian, based on their vertebrate faunal contents (Robinson and Black, 1974; Mannaï-Tayech and Otéro, 2005). | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | fine poorly lithified sandy sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: Two fossiliferous levels are known in the Beglia Formation- white sands (inferior) and yellow sands (superior). It is not clear from which level the Sbeitla collection derives. | |
| Environment: | fluvial-lacustrine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: Housed at the Geological Museum of the Geological Survey of Tunisia, Tunis. | |
| Taxonomic list comments:Other fauna unknown. | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Beglia Formation | ||
| Database number: | 35275 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Behrensmeyer | Enterer: | S. Cote |
| Modifier: | G. Varnham | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2003-11-23 10:07:21 | Last modified: | 2022-01-25 07:25:55 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2003-11-23 10:07:21 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 9486. | ETE | E. L. Agrasar. 2003. New fossil crocodilians from the Middle/Upper Miocene of Tunisia. Annales de Paleontologie 89:103-110 [A. Behrensmeyer/S. Cote/S. Cote] |
Secondary references:
| 37957 | B. Mannai-Tayech. 2009. The lithostratigraphy of Miocene series from Tunisia, revisited. Journal of African Sciences 54:53-61 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/G. Varnham] | |
| 9487 | ETE | P. Robinson and C. C. Black. 1969. Note preliminaire sur les vertebres fossiles du Vinodobonien (formation Beglia), du Bled Douarah, Gouvernorat de Gafsa, Tunisie. Notes du Service Geologique Tunisie. Traveaux de Geologie Tunisienne 31(11):67-70 [A. Behrensmeyer/S. Cote/S. Cote] |