Where: Khourigba, Morocco (32.9° N, 6.6° W: paleocoordinates 24.8° N, 7.1° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• Upper Level III
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; phosphorite
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Locals in 2006
Collection methods: salvage,
Primary reference: F. de Lapparent de Broin, N. Bardet, M. Amaghzaz and S. Meslouh. 2014. A strange new chelonioid turtle from the latest Cretaceous phosphates of Morocco. Comptes Rendus Palevol 13(2):87-95 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 153565: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 28.12.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Alienochelys selloumi n. gen. n. sp.
Alienochelys selloumi n. gen. n. sp. de Lapparent de Broin et al. 2014 sea turtle OCP DEK/GE 393, a complete large skull withits associated lower jaw and the axis lying in the orbit; the left neural arch of atlas
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