Tamguert n'Tarit (Jurassic to of Morocco)

Also known as El Mers 8, Tamgert N'Tarit

Where: Boulemane, Morocco (33.5° N, 4.4° W: paleocoordinates 28.4° N, 2.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: El Mers Formation, Middle Bathonian to Middle Bathonian (167.7 - 164.7 Ma)

• same stratigraphic level as Megalosaurus mersensis type site = uppermost part of formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; green marl and green, red, sandy, calcareous claystone

• littoral marine
• red and green clays topped with sandy or calcareous banks; bones in "green marls"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A. de Lapparent in 1939–1941

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: H. Termier, J. Gubler, and A. F. Lapparent. 1940. Reptiles et Poissons du Bathonien d'El-Mers (Moyen-Atlas marocain) [Reptiles and fishes from the Bathonian of El Mers (Moroccan Middle Atlas)]. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences à Paris 210:768-770 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 45964: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 16.12.2004, edited by Evangelos Vlachos

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Cetiosaurus mogrebiensis n. sp. Lapparent 1955 sauropod
 Testudinata -
Testudinata indet. Oppel 1811 turtle
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostreidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 oyster
"small oysters"
 Cardiida - Cardiidae