Acforcid, Wazzant (Jurassic of Morocco)

Also known as Azilal

Where: Azilal, Morocco (31.5° N, 6.8° W: paleocoordinates 27.3° N, 2.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Wazzant Formation, Toarcian (182.7 - 174.1 Ma)

• Also known as "Marnes chocolat"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal; pebbly, red, sandy conglomerate

• "aquatic, perhaps lagoonal"
• "red sandy-pelitic formation passing into conglomerates with quartz pebbles and breccias with pieces of Liassic limestone."

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. Jenny, P. Taquet in 1978–1979; reposited in the MNHN

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ),

Primary reference: J. Jenny, C. Jenny-Deshusses, A. Le Marrec and P. Taquet. 1980. Découverte d'ossements de Dinosauriens dans le Jurassique inférieur (Toarcien) du Haut Atlas central (Maroc) [Discovery of dinosaur bones in the Lower Jurassic (Toarcian) of the central High Atlas (Morocco)]. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences à Paris, série D 290:839-842 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 48566: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 23.03.2005

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Coelurosauria indet.
 Saurischia -
Sauropoda indet.