Also known as Ocepechelon bouyai type

Where: Khouribga, Morocco (32.7° N, 6.6° W: paleocoordinates 24.6° N, 7.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Couche III Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• Base of the Upper Level III (ULIII)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; phosphorite

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: N. Bardet, N.-E. Jalil, F. Lapparent Broin, D. Germain, O. Lambert and M. Amaghzaz. 2013. A giant chelonioid turtle from the Late Cretaceous of Morocco with a suction feeding apparatus unique among tetrapods. PLoS One 8(7):e63586 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 147801: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 12.07.2013

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