Also known as El Mers 5

Where: Boulemane, Morocco (33.5° N, 4.4° W: paleocoordinates 28.4° N, 2.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• uppermost part of formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1939-1940

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: H. Termier, J. Gubler, and A. F. Lapparent. 1940. Reptiles et Poissons du Bathonien d'El-Mers (Moyen-Atlas marocain) [Reptiles and fishes from the Bathonian of El Mers (Moroccan Middle Atlas)]. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences à Paris 210:768-770 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 45962: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 16.12.2004, edited by Evangelos Vlachos

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