El Begâa (Cretaceous of Morocco)

Also known as Taouz

Where: Drâa-Tafilalet, Morocco (30.9° N, 4.0° W: paleocoordinates 17.9° N, 4.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ifezouane Formation (Kem Kem Group), Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-deltaic; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Purchased from a local collector

Primary reference: R. Vullo and J.-C. Rage. 2018. The first Gondwanan borioteiioid lizard and the mid-Cretaceous dispersal event between North America and Africa. The Science of Nature 105:61:1-8 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 196796: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 08.10.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Squamata - Polyglyphanodontidae
Bicuspidon hogreli n. sp. Vullo and Rage 2018 squamates
MHNM.KK386 - type
 Squamata - Lapparentopheidae
Lapparentophis ragei n. sp. Čerňanský et al. 2019 snake
MHNM.KK387 - type; paratype: MHNM.KK388