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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Spicomellus afer n. gen. n. sp.2 Maidment et al. 2021 ankylosaur Holotype: NHMUK PV R37412, a partial rib bearing four co-ossified spines (Fig. 1a–d) housed at the Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK)
Adratiklit boulahfa n. gen. n. sp.1 Maidment et al. 2020 ornithischian Holotype: NHMUK PV R37366 (A dorsal vertebra). Referred specimens: Three cervical vertebrae (NHMUK PV R37367; R37368), a dorsal vertebra (NHMUK PV R37365), and a left humerus (NHMUK PV R37007)
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