Tafilalt region (NMC/CMN) (Cretaceous to of Morocco)

Also known as Tafilalet

Where: Drâa-Tafilalet, Morocco (30.9° N, 4.0° W: paleocoordinates 17.5° N, 3.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Kem Kem Group, Late/Upper Albian to Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 93.5 Ma)

• Ifezoune or Auofous formation

•See revised palaeontology and geology of the Kem Kem beds in Ibrahim et al. 2020

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; red sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the NMC

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ),

• Materials were purchased from private collectors.

Primary reference: D. A. Russell. 1996. Isolated dinosaur bones from the Middle Cretaceous of the Tafilalt, Morocco. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 4e série, section C 18(2-3):349-402 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 52887: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 25.08.2005, edited by Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Wilson & Allain 2015 exclude NMC 41808-41812 and 41872 from R. garasbae but do not provide an alternative identification (e.g. Sauropoda indet.) so they have not been reidentified here.
Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Theropoda "indet. A" theropod
NMC 50807-08
Theropoda "indet. C" theropod
NMC 50403
Theropoda "indet. D" theropod
NMC 41863, 50797
Theropoda "indet. E" theropod
NMC 41806
Theropoda "indet. F" theropod
NMC 41865
Theropoda "indet. H" theropod
NMC 41873
Theropoda "indet. I" theropod
NMC 50794, 41800, 50805
Theropoda "indet. J" theropod
NMC 41820, 41977
Theropoda "indet. K" theropod
NMC 50839a-e, 50842a
Theropoda "indet. L" theropod
NMC 50842B
Theropoda "indet. N" theropod
NMC 41770
Theropoda "indet. O" theropod
NMC 50830
Theropoda "indet. P" theropod
NMC 50987, 50826
Abelisauroidea indet.1 Bonaparte 1991 ceratosaur
NMC 41869, 50382
Abelisauroidea indet.5 Bonaparte 1991 ceratosaur
CMN 50811
 Theropoda - Abelisauridae
Abelisauridae indet. Bonaparte and Novas 1985 ceratosaur
NMC 41859
Abelisauridae indet.3 Bonaparte and Novas 1985 ceratosaur
NMC 41861
 Theropoda - Spinosauridae
Spinosaurus sp.2, "Spinosaurus marrocanus n. sp." = Spinosaurus aegyptiacus, "Sigilmassasaurus brevicollis n. gen. n. sp." = Spinosaurus aegyptiacus, "Sigilmassasaurus cf. brevicollis" = Spinosaurus aegyptiacus6
Spinosaurus sp.2 Stromer 1915 tetanuran theropod
NMC 41852
"Spinosaurus marrocanus n. sp." = Spinosaurus aegyptiacus Stromer 1915 tetanuran theropod
NMC 50791, 50832, 50833, 41768, 50813
"Sigilmassasaurus brevicollis n. gen. n. sp." = Spinosaurus aegyptiacus Stromer 1915 tetanuran theropod
NMC 41772, 41774-76, 41790, 41850-51, 41853-58, 50402, 50407, 50428, 50800
"Sigilmassasaurus cf. brevicollis" = Spinosaurus aegyptiacus6 Stromer 1915 tetanuran theropod
NMC 41629, 41862
 Theropoda - Carcharodontosauridae
Carcharodontosaurus saharicus Depéret and Savornin 1925 allosauroid
NMC 41859, 41908, 41910, 41817-819, 50792
 Saurischia -
Saurischia indet.5 Seeley 1888 saurischian
NMC 50810
Sauropoda indet. sauropod
NMC 41809, 41811
 Saurischia - Rebbachisauridae
cf. Rebbachisaurus sp. Lavocat 1954 sauropod
NMC 50809
Rebbachisaurus garasbae Lavocat 1954 sauropod
NMC 41808-812, 41872, 50844; NOTE: Wilson & Allain 2015 exclude NMC 41808-41812 and 41872 from R. garasbae but do not provide an alternative identification (e.g. Sauropoda indet.) so they have not been reidentified here.
 Saurischia -
Titanosauriformes indet.4 Salgado et al. 1997 sauropod
NMC 41773, 41779, 41801, 41868 (two incomplete teeth, two middle-distal caudal centra and astragalus)
 Pterosauria -
Azhdarchoidea indet.8 Unwin 1992 pterosaur
CMN 50814, right humerus
 Pterosauria - Chaoyangopteridae
Apatorhamphus sp.7 McPhee et al. 2020 pterosaur
CMN 50859, ?lower jaw
 Pterosauria - Azhdarchidae
Azhdarchidae indet.8 pterosaur
CMN 50801, cervical vertebra
 Loricata -
Araripesuchus rattoides n. sp.9 Sereno and Larsson 2009 crocodilian
CMN 41893