Also known as Zarafasaura oceanis type
Where: Morocco (32.9° N, 6.6° W: paleocoordinates 24.8° N, 7.1° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Upper C II Member (Couche III Formation), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• Upper C II level of Maastrichtian "couche III", informal names
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; gray phosphorite
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Mohamed Atid in 2004
Primary reference: P. Vincent, N. Bardet, X. P. Suberbiola, B. Bouya, M. Amaghzaz and S. Meslouh. 2011. Zarafasaura oceanis, a new elasmosaurid (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Maastrichtian Phosphates of Morocco and the palaeobiogeography of latest Cretaceous plesiosaurs. Gondwana Research 19:1062-1073 [R. Benson/R. Benson]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 116628: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 10.09.2011, edited by Matthew Carrano
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Elasmosauridae indet., Zarafasaura oceanis n. gen. n. sp.
Elasmosauridae indet. Cope 1869 elasmosaur OCP-DEK/GE 49, six dorsal vertebrae; OCP-DEK/GE 115, forty cervical and fifteen dorsal vertebrae, ribs, pelvic girdle; OCP-DEK/GE 119, one cervical vertebra; OCPDEK/ GE 122, one dorsal vertebra, one rib; OCP-DEK/GE 130, ten cervical vertebrae; OCPDEK/ GE 136, ten dorsal vertebrae; OCP-DEK/GE 165, limb element; OCP-DEK/GE 204, limb element; OCP-DEK/GE 234, height dorsal vertebrae; OCP-DEK/GE 318, pectoral girdle; OCP-DEK/GE 358, gastralia; OCP-DEK/GE 647, pelvic girdle; OCP-DEK/GE 648, sixty-six cervical and pectoral vertebrae; OCP-DEK/GE 649, seventeen cervical vertebrae in articulation probably representing the mid-cervical region; OCP-DEK/GE 651, nine cervical vertebrae
Zarafasaura oceanis n. gen. n. sp. Vincent et al. 2011 elasmosaur OCP-DEK/GE 315 (holotype) and WDC CMC-01 (partial skeleton with associated skull; Lomax and Wahl 2013)
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