Just south of Aoufous (Cretaceous of Morocco)
Where: Drâa-Tafilalet, Morocco (31.7° N, 4.2° W: paleocoordinates 18.7° N, 3.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Aoufous Formation (Kem Kem Group), Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)
• Kem Kem beds
Environment/lithology: fluvial-deltaic; sandy mudstone and sandy siltstone
• Sequence was "probably accumulating in a muddy estuary or embayment." - Klein et al (2017)
• "The Kem Kem beds represent a continental deposit ... the sequence exceeds 200 m in thickness in some localities. It is dominated by arenaceous fluvial deposits for approximately two-thirds of the sequence, with the upper part being overbank muds and silty channel deposits, Vertebrate fossils primarily occur in the sandy beds." - Klein et al (2017)
Size class: mesofossils
Primary reference: C. G. Klein, N. R. Longrich, N. Ibrahim, S. Zouhri, and D. M. Martill. 2017. A new basal snake from the mid-Cretaceous of Morocco. Cretaceous Research 72:134-141 [P. Barrett/T. Cleary/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 183549: authorized by Paul Barrett, entered by Terri Cleary on 06.01.2017
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