Also known as Asfla

Where: Morocco (31.9° N, 4.9° W: paleocoordinates 20.2° N, 4.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Mammites nodosoides ammonoid zone, Akrabou Formation, Early/Lower Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• These concretions contain a diverse ammonite fauna (Kennedy et al. 2008) indicative of the Mammites nodosoides biozone of the early Turonian (Cavin & Dutheil 1999). Where fossils are actively mined, there are typically two distinct units of concretions. A lower concretion bed, up to 1 metre thick, is generally poor in macrofossils although some ammonites are present. A second concretion bed, about 2 metres higher in the succession, is somewhat discontinuous (being absent at this level at Asfla itself) and often highly fossiliferous.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified, concretionary lime mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: concretion, soft parts, original phosphate

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: K. M. Claeson, C. J. Underwood, and D. J. Ward. 2013. †Tingitanius enuimandibulus, a New Platyrhinid Batoid from the Turonian (Cretaceous) of Morocco and the Cretaceous Radiation of the Platyrhinidae. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33(5):1019-1036 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 150881: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 17.09.2013, edited by Matthew Clapham

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