southwest foot of Gara Sbâa (Cretaceous of Morocco)

Also known as Gara es Sbaa, Gara Sbâ

Where: Drâa-Tafilalet, Morocco (30.5° N, 4.8° W: paleocoordinates 17.8° N, 4.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• orig. "Continental Intercalaire", now part of the "Kem Kem beds"

•Gara Sbaa Fm. following Ibrahim et al. (2020)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lenticular, conglomeratic claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by R. Lavocat in 1949–1952; reposited in the MNHN

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

Primary reference: R. Lavocat. 1951. Découverte de restes d'un grand Dinosaurien sauropode dans le Crétacé du Sud marocain [Discovery of remains of a large sauropod dinosaur in the Cretaceous of southern Morocco]. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences à Paris 232:169-170 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 59771: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 11.04.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
  -
Reptilia indet.2 Laurenti 1768 reptile
teeth
 Saurischia - Rebbachisauridae
Rebbachisaurus garasbae n. gen. n. sp.3
Rebbachisaurus garasbae n. gen. n. sp.3 Lavocat 1954 sauropod
partial skeleton, only incompletely excavated; MNHN-MRS 1476-77, 1491, 1728, 1957-58, 1979, 1980-88, 1990-2002
 Loricata -
"Thoracosaurus cherifiensis n. sp." = Elosuchus cherifiensis1
"Thoracosaurus cherifiensis n. sp." = Elosuchus cherifiensis1 Lavocat 1955 crocodilian
MNHN MRS 338, 340
Coelacanthimorpha
 Coelacanthiformes - Mawsoniidae
Mawsonia lavocati n. sp.4 Tabaste 1963 coelacanth