Ras Kouat Trick: Early/Lower Cenomanian, Morocco

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri - Lepisosteiformes
Lepidotes sp. Agassiz 1832
30 specimens
scales
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Hybodontidae
Hybodus sp. Agassiz 1834
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Morocco State/province:Fès-Meknès County:Meknès
Coordinates: 30.3° North, 4.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:17.5° North, 4.8° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
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
Stratigraphy comments: See revised palaeontology and geology of the Kem Kem beds in Ibrahim et al. 2020
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:206858
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2019-12-06 15:23:10 Last modified:2022-08-22 20:35:17
Access level:the public Released:2019-12-06 15:23:10
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
71151. N. Tabaste. 1963. Étude derestes de poissons du Crétacé saharien [Study of fish remains from the Saharan Cretaceous]. Mélanges Ichthyologiques Dédiés à la Mémoire d’Achille Valenciennes (1794–1865). Mémoires de l’Institute Français d’Afrique Noire 68:437-485 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]