Daoura (Cretaceous of Morocco)

Where: Drâa-Tafilalet, Morocco (30.6° N, 4.4° W: paleocoordinates 17.7° N, 4.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Kem Kem Group, 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: marginal marine; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: Repository: Natural History Museum in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France (BHN)

Primary reference: L. Cavin. 1999. A new Clupavidae (Teleostei, Ostariophysi) from the Cenomanian of Daoura (Morocco). Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Série IIA - Sciences de la Terre et des Planètes 329(9):689-695 [S. Peters/S. McMullen/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 136829: authorized by Shanan Peters, entered by Sharon McMullen on 05.12.2012

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Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Clupeiformes - Clupeoidei
Lusitanichthys africanus n. sp. Cavin 1999 herring