Also known as Crocodylus checchiai type
Where: Libya (30.5° N, 17.5° E: paleocoordinates 30.3° N, 17.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Sahabi Formation, Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by C. Petrocchi in 1938, 1939
Primary reference: A. M. Maccagno. 1947. Descrizione di una nuova specie di ‘Crocodilus’ del giacimento di Sahabi (Sirtica). Atti della Reale Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei: Memorie della Classe di Scienze fisiche, Mathematiche e Naturale, Serie 8 1(2):61-96 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 144638: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 14.05.2013, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Reptilia | |
Crocodylus checchiai n. sp.
Crocodylus checchiai n. sp. Maccagno 1947 crocodile Type - Istituto di Paleontologia dell’Università di Roma (now apparently lost [skull and lower jaw]); referred material: three skulls lost/destroyed originally in the Museum of Natural History of Tripoli; one cranium - sn813/lj (ex MPURLS)
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| Mammalia | |
Stegotetrabelodon syrticus n. sp.
Stegotetrabelodon syrticus n. sp. Petrocchi 1941 elephant | |