Where: Morocco (32.5° N, 7.2° W: paleocoordinates 24.5° N, 7.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• Oulad Abdoun Basin
Environment/lithology: marine; phosphatic lithology not reported and limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by MNHN Arambourg Collection; reposited in the MNHN
Primary reference: N. Bardet, X. Pereda Suberbiola, M. Iarochène, M. Amalik, and B. Bouya. 2005. Durophagous Mosasauridae (Squamata) from the Upper Cretaceous phosphates of Morocco, with description of a new species of Globidens. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences — Geologie en Mijnbouw 84(3):167-175 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 116905: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 14.09.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Carinodens belgicus Woodward 1891 mosasaur MNHN Arambourg Collection (posteriormost tooth) - originally referred to Globidens aegyptiacus by Arambourg (1952) - the specimen is now lost
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