Also known as Mont des Ksours

Where: Adrar, Algeria (32.7° N, 0.8° E: paleocoordinates 18.2° N, 0.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Continental Intercalaire Formation, Cenomanian (100.5 - 93.9 Ma)

• orig. suggested to be Albian; reassigned to Cenomanian based on fauna

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: delta plain; poorly lithified, lenticular, fine-grained, yellow, sandy sandstone and gypsiferous, red, sandy claystone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by J. Bassoullet & J. Iliou in 1967

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

Primary reference: J.-P. Bassoullet and J. Iliou. 1967. Découverte des Dinosauriens associés à des Crocodiliens et des Poissons dans le Crétacé inférieur de l'Atlas saharien (Algérie) [Discovery of dinosaurs associated with crocodilians and fish in the Lower Cretaceous of the Saharan Atlas (Algeria)]. Société Géologique de la France, Comptes Rendus Sommaire des Sciences 1967:294-295 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 59341: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 27.03.2006

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