Ras Kouat Trick (Cretaceous of Morocco)

Where: Fès-Meknès, Morocco (30.3° N, 4.6° W: paleocoordinates 17.5° N, 4.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: N. Tabaste. 1963. Étude derestes de poissons du Crétacé saharien [Study of fish remains from the Saharan Cretaceous]. Mélanges Ichthyologiques Dédiés à la Mémoire d’Achille Valenciennes (1794–1865). Mémoires de l’Institute Français d’Afrique Noire 68:437-485 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 206858: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 06.12.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Lepisosteiformes -
Lepidotes sp. Agassiz 1832 gar
scales
Chondrichthyes
 Hybodontiformes - Hybodontidae
Hybodus sp. Agassiz 1834 elasmobranch