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

Environment/lithology: marine; gray phosphorite

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ)

• OCP, Office Chérifien des Phosphates Khouribga, Morocco

Primary reference: P. Vincent, N. Bardet, A. Houssaye and M. Amaghzaz. 2013. New plesiosaur specimens from the Maastrichtian Phosphates of Morocco and their implications for the ecology of the latest Cretaceous marine apex predators. Gondwana Research 24(2):796-805 [R. Benson/R. Benson/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 137830: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 21.12.2012

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