Where: Fès-Meknes, Morocco (33.2° N, 5.1° W: paleocoordinates 28.4° N, 2.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: El Mers III Formation (El Mers Group), Late/Upper Bathonian to Late/Upper Bathonian (167.7 - 163.5 Ma)

• might be slightly higher stratigraphically than orig. assignment to El Mers II Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gypsiferous mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments and green siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

• surface bones, Sauropoda indet.

Collected by M. Charroud in 1987, 2019–2020; reposited in the BMNH

• Some specimens "acquired by the Natural History Museum, London, from Moussa Direct, Cambridge, UK," a commercial fossil dealer.

Primary reference: M. Charroud and B. Fedan. 1992. Donnees preliminaires sur la decouverte du gisement de boulahfe a dinosauriens (SW de Boulemane, Moyen Atlas Central). Resumes et Observations 448-449 [M. Carrano/M. Oreska]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 98356: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Oreska on 04.10.2010, edited by Emma Dunne

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