PBDB Collection

El Hmaima 1: Late Aptian - Early Albian, Tunisia

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Reptilia - Pterosauria

	Pterosauria indet. (Kaup 1834)	Srarfi et al. 2004
Reptilia

	Theropoda indet. (Marsh 1881)		3 specimens
	TU-001 to 003
Reptilia - Carcharodontosauridae

	Carcharodontosaurus cf. saharicus (Depéret and Savornin 1925)	Srarfi et al. 2004
Reptilia - Spinosauridae

	Spinosauridae indet. Stromer 1915		3 specimens
	TU-004 to 006
	= Spinosaurus sp. Stromer 1915	Srarfi et al. 2004
	= cf. Spinosaurus sp. Stromer 1915	Amiot et al. 2010

	cf. Baryonyx sp. Charig and Milner 1986	Srarfi et al. 2004	1 specimen
	tooth
Reptilia

	Crocodylia indet. (Owen 1842)		2 specimens
	TU-007, 008
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Pseudoscapanorhynchidae

	Cretodus semiplicatus (Agassiz 1843)	Srarfi et al. 2004

	Protolamna sp. Cappetta 1980	Srarfi et al. 2004	3 specimens
	teeth
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Hybodontidae

	Priohybodus arambourgi d'Erasmo 1960	Cuny et al. 2004
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Acrodontidae

	cf. Asteracanthus sp. Agassiz 1836	Srarfi et al. 2004	1 specimen
	tooth
see common names

Formation:	Aïn el Guettar	Member:	Oum ed Diab
Stratigraphic resolution:	bed
Stratigraphy comments: orig. assigned to the Chenini Member, but referred to the lower Oum ed Diab Mbr. in Fanti et al. 2012

Primary lithology:	not reported
Environment:	terrestrial indet.

Modes of preservation:	body
Size of fossils:	macrofossils,mesofossils

Collection methods:	surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:	paleoecologic analysis

53517		R. Amiot, X. Wang, C. Lécuyer, E. Buffetaut, L. Boudad, L. Cavin, Z. Ding, F. Fluteau, A. W. A. Kellner, H. Tong, and F. Zhang. 2010. Oxygen and carbon isotope compositions of middle Cretaceous vertebrates from North Africa and Brazil: Ecological and environmental significance. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 297(2):439-451 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
84281		G. Cuny, M. Ouaja, D. Srarfi, L. Schmitz, E. Buffetaut and M. J. Benton. 2004. Fossil Sharks from the Early Cretaceous of Tunisia. Revue de Palèobiologie, Genève (2004) spécial(9):127-142 [M. Clapham/M. Gagucas]
82474		F. Fanti, M. Contessi, and F. Franchi. 2012. The “Continental Intercalaire” of southern Tunisia: stratigraphy, paleontology, and paleoecology. Journal of African Earth Sciences 73-74:1-23 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
82497		D. Srarfi, M. Ouaja, E. Buffetaut, G. Cuny, G. Barale, S. Ferry, and E. Fara. 2004. Position stratigraphique des niveaux à vertébrés du Mésozoïque Sud-Est de la Tunisie [Stratigraphic position of beds with Mesozoic vertebrates from southeastern Tunisia]. Notes du Service Géologique de Tunisie 72:5-16 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]