Sahabi Fauna, locality P28A (Miocene of Libya)

Where: Libya (30.1° N, 20.7° E: paleocoordinates 29.9° N, 20.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: U-1 Member (Sahabi Formation), Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)

• Messinian according to El-Shawaihdi et al 2016

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Primary reference: F. C. Howell. 1987. Preliminary observations on Carnivora from the Sahabi Formation (Libya). In N. T. Boaz, A. El-Arnauti, A. W. Gaziry, J. de Heinzelin, D. D. Boaz (eds.), Neogene Paleontology and Geology of Sahabi 153-181 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 102369: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 14.01.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Carnivora - Percrocutidae
 Carnivora - Felidae
Machairodus sp. Kaup 1833 cat
 Carnivora - Viverridae
Viverra sp. Linnaeus 1758 civet
 Carnivora - Ursidae
Ursidae indet. Gray 1825 bear
Indarctos sp. Pilgrim 1913 bear