Also known as Asfla
Where: Morocco (31.9° N, 4.9° W: paleocoordinates 20.2° N, 4.8° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Mammites nodosoides ammonoid zone, Akrabou Formation, Early/Lower Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)
• These concretions contain a diverse ammonite fauna (Kennedy et al. 2008) indicative of the Mammites nodosoides biozone of the early Turonian (Cavin & Dutheil 1999). Where fossils are actively mined, there are typically two distinct units of concretions. A lower concretion bed, up to 1 metre thick, is generally poor in macrofossils although some ammonites are present. A second concretion bed, about 2 metres higher in the succession, is somewhat discontinuous (being absent at this level at Asfla itself) and often highly fossiliferous.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified, concretionary lime mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: concretion, soft parts, original phosphate
Reposited in the BMNH
Primary reference: K. M. Claeson, C. J. Underwood, and D. J. Ward. 2013. †Tingitanius enuimandibulus, a New Platyrhinid Batoid from the Turonian (Cretaceous) of Morocco and the Cretaceous Radiation of the Platyrhinidae. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33(5):1019-1036 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 150881: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 17.09.2013, edited by Matthew Clapham
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Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
Tingitanius tenuimandibulus n. gen. n. sp.
Tingitanius tenuimandibulus n. gen. n. sp. Claeson et al. 2013 guitarfish | |
Asflapristis cristadentis n. gen. n. sp.3
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Actinopteri | |
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Anomoeodus "sp. A"2, Anomoeodus "sp. B"2, Neomesturus asflaensis n. gen. n. sp.2, Paranursallia cavini n. sp.2, Polazzodus sp.2
Anomoeodus "sp. A"2 Forir 1887
Anomoeodus "sp. B"2 Forir 1887
Neomesturus asflaensis n. gen. n. sp.2 Cooper and Martill 2020
Paranursallia cavini n. sp.2 Cooper and Martill 2020
Polazzodus sp.2 Poyato-Ariza 2010 |