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"
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•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
Coelacanthimorpha | |
Mawsonia lavocati n. sp.4
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Reptilia | |
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"Thoracosaurus cherifiensis n. sp." = Elosuchus cherifiensis1
"Thoracosaurus cherifiensis n. sp." = Elosuchus cherifiensis1 Lavocat 1955 crocodilian MNHN MRS 338, 340
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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
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