Where: Morocco (32.0° N, 6.0° W: paleocoordinates 21.9° N, 4.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Late/Upper Cretaceous to Late/Upper Cretaceous (100.5 - 55.8 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marginal marine; burrowed, phosphatic, cherty/siliceous mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments and pebbly sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: cast
Primary reference: R. T. J. Moody. 1976. The discovery of a large pelomedusid turtle from the phosphates of Morocco. Tertiary Research 1(2):53-58 [J. Head/J. Head/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 34639: authorized by Jason Head, entered by Jason Head on 13.09.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Pelomedusidae indet. Cope 1868 sideneck turtle |