Also known as South of Erfoud, Araripesuchus type locality

Where: Drâa-Tafilalet, Morocco (31.4° N, 4.2° W: paleocoordinates 18.4° N, 4.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• From Ibrahim et al. 2020: The speciose genus Araripesuchus, known initially from South America and later from Africa and Madagascar, also occurs in the Kem Kem Group as Araripesuchus rattoides (Fig. 74). It was named on the basis of a partial, edentulous dentary with 14 alveoli that was collected commercially and thus comes from an uncertain locality and horizon (NMC 41893, as CMN 41893 in Sereno and Larsson 2009). Referred specimens include partial dentaries from the Douira Formation collected at Dar El Karib (near Erfoud) and another collected commercially from an uncertain locality and horizon (BSPG 2008 I 41, Fig. 74E, F).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1990

• UCRC collection

Primary reference: P. C. Sereno and H. C. E. Larsson. 2009. Cretaceous crocodyliformes from the Sahara. ZooKeys 28:1-143 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 92632: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 19.11.2009

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