Jebel Beg’aa, Taouz (general area) (Cretaceous of Morocco)

Where: Drâa-Tafilalet, Morocco (30.9° N, 4.0° W: paleocoordinates 17.9° N, 4.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Kem Kem Group, Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• group-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: P. D. Mannion and P. M. Barrett. 2013. Additions to the sauropod dinosaur fauna of the Cenomanian (early Late Cretaceous) Kem Kem beds of Morocco: Palaeobiogeographical implications of the mid-Cretaceous African sauropod fossil record. Cretaceous Research 45:49-59 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 59057: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 08.03.2006, edited by Philip Mannion

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Somphospondyli indet.
Somphospondyli indet. Wilson and Sereno 1998 sauropod
NHMUK R36635 (partial dorsal neural arch)
 Saurischia - Rebbachisauridae
Rebbachisauridae indet.
Rebbachisauridae indet. sauropod
NHMUK R36636 (partial anterior caudal vertebra)
 Theropoda - Noasauridae
Noasauridae indet.1
Noasauridae indet.1 Bonaparte and Powell 1980 ceratosaur
ROM 64666 (an almost complete, well-preserved left femur)
 Loricata - Itasuchidae
Antaeusuchus taouzensis n. gen. n. sp.2
Antaeusuchus taouzensis n. gen. n. sp.2 Nicholl et al. 2021 crocodilian
NHMUK PV R36829 - holotype (paired mandibles); paratype - NHMUK PV R36874 (mandible)
1Evans et al. 2015; 2Nicholl et al. 2021