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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Cetiosaurus mogrebiensis n. sp.
Cetiosaurus mogrebiensis n. sp. Lapparent 1955 sauropod | |
Testudinata indet. Oppel 1811 turtle | |
Bivalvia | |
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Protocardia tikechkachensis cockle |