Also known as "primitive locality", El Mers 1

Where: Boulemane, Morocco (33.4° N, 4.4° W: paleocoordinates 28.4° N, 2.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: El Mers Formation, Middle Bathonian to Middle Bathonian (167.7 - 164.7 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; green, red, sandy, calcareous claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Paster & Samuel, Termier, Bourcart & Lapparent in 1925–1941

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

• originally made under Termier in late 1920s, then resumed by Lapparent in 1939-40; all bones from a single skeleton. Discovered by "an officer" in 1926 and reported to the Institute scientifique chérifien de Rabat by Bourcart in 1927

Primary reference: H. Termier. 1936. Études géologiques sur le Maroc central et le Moyen Atlas septentrional. Tome II. Les terrains post-Triasiques [Geological studies on central Morocco and the northern Middle Atlas. Volume II. The post-Triassic terrains]. Protectorat de la République Française au Maroc, Direction Générale des Travaux Publics, Service des Mînes et de la Carte Géologique. Notes et Mémoires 33:1-1082 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 45958: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 16.12.2004

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