Also known as KEB-1; Kébar 1

Where: Sidi Bouzid Township, Tunisia (35.0° N, 9.8° E: paleocoordinates 30.3° N, 6.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• Late middle Eocene (Bartonian). Dated at ~39.5 Ma by radiometric K-Ar analyses performed on grains of glauconite extracted from the glauconitic clays embedding the fossils of KEB-1

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal; lithified, argillaceous mudstone and white sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: L. Marivaux, E. M. Essid, W. Marzougui, H.K. Ammar, S. Adnet, B. Marandat, G. Merzeraud, R. Tabuce, and M. Vianey-Liaud. 2014. A new and primitive species of Protophiomys (Rodentia, Hystricognathi) from the late middle Eocene of Djebel el Kébar, Central Tunisia. Palaeovertebrata 38(1):1-17 [P. Coster/P. Coster/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 173640: authorized by Pauline Coster, entered by Pauline Coster on 06.10.2015, edited by Philip Mannion and Mark Uhen

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