Kem Kem region (GMNH collection) (Cretaceous to of Morocco)

Where: DrĂ¢a-Tafilalet, Morocco (30.9° N, 4.0° W: paleocoordinates 17.5° N, 3.9° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Kem Kem Group, Late/Upper Albian to Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 93.5 Ma)

• See revised palaeontology and geology of the Kem Kem beds in Ibrahim et al. 2020

• group-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: GMNH

Primary reference: M. C. Lamanna and Y. Hasegawa. 2014. New titanosauriform sauropod dinosaur material from the Cenomanian of Morocco: implications for paleoecology and sauropod diversity in the Late Cretaceous of North Africa. Bulletin of Gunma Museum of Natural History 18:1-19 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 155306: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 07.04.2014, edited by Evangelos Vlachos

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines -
Hamadachelys escuilliei Tong and Buffetaut 1996 sideneck turtle
 Testudines - Bothremydidae
Galianemys whitei Gaffney et al. 2002 sideneck turtle
Galianemys emringeri Gaffney et al. 2002 sideneck turtle
 Testudines - Araripemydidae
Araripemys sp. Price 1973 sideneck turtle
 Testudines - Euraxemydidae
Dirqadim schaefferi Gaffney et al. 2006 sideneck turtle
 Saurischia -
Somphospondyli indet. Wilson and Sereno 1998 sauropod
GMNH-PV 2399 (nearly complete, well-preserved anterior dorsal vertebra); GMNH-PV 2314 (partial right ischium)