Where: Souss-Massa, Morocco (29.7° N, 9.0° W: paleocoordinates 18.3° N, 8.7° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Unit 2 Member, Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)
• See revised palaeontology and geology of the Kem Kem beds in Ibrahim et al. 2020
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; lithified claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collected by P. C. Sereno & D. B. Dutheil in 1995, 1999
Collection methods: quarrying,
• Museum repository: Poi-SGM: Collection de Paleontologie du Service Geologique du Maroc (Ministere des Mines et de l'Energie du Maroc, Rabat)
Primary reference: A. Filleul and D. B. Dutheil. 2001. Spinocaudichthys Oumtkoutensis, a Freshwater Acanthomorph from the Cenomanian of Morocco. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 21(4):774-780 [S. Peters/S. McMullen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 133582: authorized by Shanan Peters, entered by Sharon McMullen on 17.09.2012, edited by Mark Bell
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
Diplospondichthys moreaui n. gen. n. sp.1
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Actinopteri | |
Spinocaudichthys oumtkoutensis n. gen. n. sp.
Spinocaudichthys oumtkoutensis n. gen. n. sp. | |
Cladistia | |
Serenoichthys kemkemensis n. gen. n. sp.2
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