Also known as Ksar Metlili, KM 1983

Where: Oriental, Morocco (32.7° N, 3.2° W: paleocoordinates 25.6° N, 1.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ksar Metlili Formation, Late/Upper Tithonian to Late/Upper Tithonian (150.8 - 140.2 Ma)

• originally labeled "Couches Rouges"; dated from nannoliths and charophyte

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•Age is debated, usually noted as ?Berrisian or Late Tithonian–Early Berrisian based on Microvertebrate analysis (Lasseron et al. 2019)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deltaic; lenticular, red, calcareous sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by M. Monbaron, D. Sigogneau-Russell in 1983–1988; reposited in the MNHN

Collection methods: bulk, chemical, sieve,

Primary reference: D. Sigogneau-Russell, M. Monbaron, and D. E. Russell. 1988. Decouverte de mammiferes dans le Mesozoique moyen d'Afrique [Discovery of mammals in the middle Mesozoic of Africa]. Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences, Serie 2 307(8):1045-1050 [J. Alroy/J. Wertheim/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 45726: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 29.11.2004, edited by Philip Mannion, Roger Benson, Terri Cleary, Richard Butler and John Alroy

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