East of Taouz: Early/Lower Cenomanian, Morocco
collected 1999
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Chondrichthyes
- Rajiformes
- Sclerorhynchidae
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Onchopristis sp.
Stromer 1917
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Reptilia
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Kemkemia auditorei n. gen., n. sp.
Cau and Maganuco 2009
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| nomen dubium belonging to Crocodyliformes | ||||||||||
| MSNM V6408 - holotype (distal caudal vertebra) | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Morocco | State/province: | Drâa-Tafilalet | County: | Errachidia |
| Coordinates: | 30.9° North, 3.9° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 17.8° North, 3.9° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
| Altitude: | 736 meters | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Cenomanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 5 |
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Cenomanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 100.50000 - 93.90000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Kem Kem |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | red sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: red sandstone | |
| Environment: | "channel" |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | Collection dates: | May 1999 |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Kemkemia auditorei type, Erfoud | ||
| Database number: | 132489 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Mannion | Enterer: | P. Mannion |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2012-08-20 20:23:04 | Last modified: | 2022-08-22 20:29:23 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2012-08-20 20:23:04 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 42684. | A. Cau and S. Maganuco. 2009. A new theropod dinosaur, represented by a single unusual caudal vertebra, from the Kem Kem Beds (Cretaceous) of Morocco. Atti della Società italiana di scienze naturali e del museo civico di storia naturale di Milano 150:239-257 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] |
Secondary references:
| 43380 | A. Cau, F. M. Dalla Vecchia, and M. Fabri. 2013. A thick-skulled theropod (Dinosauria, Saurischia) from the Upper Cretaceous of Morocco with implications for carcharodontosaurid cranial evolution. Cretaceous Research 40:251-260 [R. Benson/R. Benson/P. Mannion] | |
| 42685 | G. Lio, F. Agnolin, A. Cau and S. Maganuco. 2012. Crocodyliform affinities for Kemkemia auditorei Cau & Maganuco, 2009 from the Late Cretaceous of Morocco. Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano 153(1):119-126 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion] |