Hamada du Guir pterosaurs (BSPG) (Cretaceous of Morocco)

Where: Drâa-Tafilalet, Morocco (30.9° N, 4.0° W: paleocoordinates 17.9° N, 4.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

• See revised palaeontology and geology of the Kem Kem beds in Ibrahim et al. 2020

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by private collectors; reposited in the BSP

Primary reference: N. Ibrahim, D. M. Unwin, D. M. Martill, L. Baidder, and S. Zouhri. 2010. A new pterosaur (Pterodactyloidea: Azharchidae) from the Upper Cretaceous of Morocco. PLoS One 5(5):e10875 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 90076: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 07.07.2009, edited by Philip Mannion

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Pterosauria - Azhdarchidae
Alanqa saharica
Alanqa saharica Ibrahim et al. 2010 pterosaur
BSP 1996 I 36, lower jaw fragment
 Pterosauria - Tapejaridae
Afrotapejara zouhri1
Afrotapejara zouhri1 Martill et al. 2020 pterosaur
BSP 1997 I 67, fragment of anterior mandibular symphysis
 Pterosauria - Chaoyangopteridae
Apatorhamphus gyrostega2
Apatorhamphus gyrostega2 McPhee et al. 2020 pterosaur
BSP 1993 IX 338, jaw fragment
 Pterosauria - Ornithocheiridae
Ornithocheiridae indet.
Ornithocheiridae indet. Seeley 1870 pterosaur
BSP 1993 IX 4, 590-596, Isolated teeth - four morphotypes are represented
1Martill et al. 2020; 2McPhee et al. 2020