Also known as Hammada du Guir
Where: Drâa-Tafilalet, Morocco (30.9° N, 4.0° W: paleocoordinates 17.5° N, 3.8° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Kem Kem Group, Late/Upper Albian to Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 93.5 Ma)
• No formation name is given. "specimen..collected from the basement of the Hamada du Guir...mapped as...Infra-Cenomanian because it is overlain by Cenomano-Turonian marine limestones." Name given as "Tegama/Tegana" in error.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red siliciclastic sediments
•"Stratum typicum: red beds of late Albian to early Cenomanian Age."
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Alberti in 1971
• Only Hamadasuchus n.g. rebouli n.sp. is described in reference # 6005; the fishes, crocodilians, and dinosaurs are described in Buffetaut 1976a and Buffetaut 1989a.
Primary reference: E. Buffetaut. 1989. New remains of the enigmatic dinosaur Spinosaurus from the Cretaceous of Morocco and the affinities between Spinosaurus and Baryonyx. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatshefte 1989(2):79-87 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 13274: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Robin Whatley on 12.02.2002, edited by John Alroy, Matthew Carrano and Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Coelacanthimorpha | |
Mawsonia lavocati Tabaste 1963 coelacanth | |
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Dirqadim schaefferi n. gen. n. sp.3
Dirqadim schaefferi n. gen. n. sp.3 Gaffney et al. 2006 sideneck turtle Holotype MDEt 41 (skull), and AMNH 30038 (partial skull)
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"Baryonychidae indet." = Baryonychinae2
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