Also known as Jebel Zelten Wádí Shatírát
Where: Libya (28.0° N, 20.5° E: paleocoordinates 27.0° N, 19.2° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Maradah Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)
• corresponds to the site of Wádí Shatírát of Wessels et al. 2003; stratigraphically higher than area 6409 of Savage and Hamilton 1973; lower part of Middle Miocene per Wessels et al. 2003
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: R. J. G. Savage. 1973. Megistotherium, gigantic hyaenodont from Miocene of Gebel Zelten, Libya. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 22(7):485-511 [J. Alroy/J. Wertheim/J. Wertheim]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 13065: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 18.01.2002, edited by Jill Wertheim, Patricia Holroyd, Philip Mannion and Evangelos Vlachos
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Gavialidae indet.1, "Tomistoma dowsoni" = Sutekhsuchus dowsoni1, "Sutekhsuchus dowsoni" = Sutekhsuchus dowsoni4
"Tomistoma dowsoni" = Sutekhsuchus dowsoni1 Fourtau 1918 crocodilian Based on Savage & Hamilton 1973, and Tchernov 1986
"Sutekhsuchus dowsoni" = Sutekhsuchus dowsoni4 Fourtau 1918 crocodilian MNHN.LBE.300: anterior portion of snout; MNHN.LBE.301: posterior portion of snout; MNHN.LBE.302: fragment of anterior part of snout
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Crocodylidae "indet. 1"1, Crocodylidae "indet. 2"1, cf. Rimasuchus lloydi3, "Euthecodon arambourgi n. gen. n. sp." = Euthecodon arambourgii6
Crocodylidae "indet. 1"1 crocodile BRSUG 27360: partial skull table accompanied by fragmentary occipital and quadrate regions and braincase; MNHN.LBE.311: complete skull table accompanied by almost complete occipital region and braincase and fragmentary right quadrate region
Crocodylidae "indet. 2"1 crocodile MNHN.LBE.306: almost complete skull table (lacking part of the right postorbital and squamosal) accompanied by the right quadrate region and a fragmentary occipital region lacking the basioccipital; MNHN.LBE.307: anterior part of right dentary; MNHN.LBE.308: posterior part of a right lower jaw. All these specimens were found in association, possibly coming from a single individual
"Euthecodon arambourgi n. gen. n. sp." = Euthecodon arambourgii6 Ginsburg and Buffetaut 1978 crocodile MNHN ZEL 001 - type (skull)
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Allaeochelys libyca n. sp.7
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Megistotherium osteothlastes n. gen. n. sp.
Megistotherium osteothlastes n. gen. n. sp. Savage 1973 creodont | |
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Sayimys sp. n. sp.9
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