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
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Theropoda "indet. A", Theropoda "indet. C", Theropoda "indet. D", Theropoda "indet. E", Theropoda "indet. F", Theropoda "indet. H", Theropoda "indet. I", Theropoda "indet. J", Theropoda "indet. K", Theropoda "indet. L", Theropoda "indet. N", Theropoda "indet. O", Theropoda "indet. P", Abelisauroidea indet.1, Abelisauroidea indet.5
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Spinosaurus sp.2, "Spinosaurus marrocanus n. sp." = Spinosaurus aegyptiacus, "Sigilmassasaurus brevicollis n. gen. n. sp." = Spinosaurus aegyptiacus, "Sigilmassasaurus cf. brevicollis" = Spinosaurus aegyptiacus6
"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
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Carcharodontosaurus saharicus Depéret and Savornin 1925 allosauroid NMC 41859, 41908, 41910, 41817-819, 50792
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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.
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Titanosauriformes indet.4 Salgado et al. 1997 sauropod NMC 41773, 41779, 41801, 41868 (two incomplete teeth, two middle-distal caudal centra and astragalus)
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Araripesuchus rattoides n. sp.9
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