Also known as Asflat, Goulimima, Asfla
Where: Er-Rachidia, Morocco (31.9° N, 4.9° W: paleocoordinates 20.2° N, 4.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Akrabou Formation, Early/Lower Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)
• "concentrated in the Unit 4 of the Cenomanian-Turonian limestone bar, a reference level in North Africa. The Unit 4 is Early Turonian in age"
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; nodular, calcareous limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: concretion
Reposited in the MNHN
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,
• SMNK, Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe, Germany
Primary reference: N. Bardet, X. Pereda Suberbiola, and N.-E. Jalil. 2003. A new mosasauroid (Squamata) from the Late Cretaceous (Turonian) of Morocco. Comptes Rendus Palevol 2(8):607-616 [M. Carrano/H. Street/F. Aspromonte]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 103973: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Hallie Street on 04.02.2011, edited by Roger Benson and Matthew Carrano
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Tethysaurus nopcsai n. gen. n. sp.
Tethysaurus nopcsai n. gen. n. sp. Bardet et al. 2003 squamates | |
Manemergus anguirostris n. gen. n. sp.3 Buchy et al. 2005 plesiosaur SMNK-PAL 3861 (holotype, partial skeleton)
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"Libonectes atlasense n. sp." = Libonectes morgani2
"Libonectes atlasense n. sp." = Libonectes morgani2 Welles 1949 southwest diver SMNK-PAL 3978 (holotype skeleton)
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