Sidi Chennane [upper Couche III] (general) (Cretaceous of Morocco)

Also known as bed 3

Where: Khouribga, Morocco (32.8° N, 6.2° W: paleocoordinates 24.7° N, 6.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Couche III Formation), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• upper Couche III

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; phosphorite

• phosphatic sands, marls, and limestones

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Office Chérifien des Phosphates mines

Primary reference: N. R. Longrich, X. Pereda Suberbiola, R. A. Pyron and N.-E. Jalil. 2021. The first duckbill dinosaur (Hadrosauridae: Lambeosaurinae) from Africa and the role of oceanic dispersal in dinosaur biogeography. Cretaceous Research 120:104678 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 215206: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 03.11.2020, edited by Eren Tasimov

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Squamata - Mosasauridae
Hainosaurus boubker n. sp.4, Thalassotitan atrox2, Xenodens calminechari n. gen. n. sp.1
Hainosaurus boubker n. sp.4 Rempert et al. 2022 mosasaur
VANPS 13.0120 & 13.0121 - syntypes; referred specimens: VANPS 13.0122, 13.0124, 13.0125, 13.0165
Thalassotitan atrox2 Longrich et al. 2022 mosasaur
MNHM.KHG.330
Xenodens calminechari n. gen. n. sp.1 Longrich et al. 2021 mosasaur
MHNM.KH.333 - holotype
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Ajnabia odysseus n. gen. n. sp., Minqaria bata n. gen. n. sp.3
Ajnabia odysseus n. gen. n. sp. Longrich et al. 2021 lambeosaurine
MHNM.KHG.222 - holotype
Minqaria bata n. gen. n. sp.3 Longrich et al. 2024 lambeosaurine
MHNM.KHG.1395 - Holotype
1Longrich et al. 2021; 2Longrich et al. 2022; 3Longrich et al. 2024; 4Rempert et al. 2022