southwest foot of Gara Sbâa: Early/Lower Cenomanian, Morocco
collected by R. Lavocat 1949–1952

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Reptilia indet. Laurenti 1768
Lavocat 1952
teeth
Sauropoda indet. Marsh 1878
1 individual
partial skeleton, only incompletely excavated; MNHN-MRS 1476-77, 1491, 1728, 1957-58, 1979, 1980-88, 1990-2002 (1 measurement)
    = Rebbachisaurus garasbae n. gen., n. sp. Lavocat 1954
Lavocat 1954
A complete posterior dorsal vertebra (MNHN-MRS 1958); neural arch fragments representing four dorsal vertebrae (MNHN-MRS 1979, 1980, 1991, 2000); two badly damaged partial dorsal neural spines (MNHN-MRS 1986, 1987); dorsal rib shaft fragments (MNHN-MRS 1984, 1985); fused neural spines of two and part of a third sacral vertebrae (MNHNMRS 1999); two caudal neural spines (MNHN-MRS 1987, 1988); right scapula (MNHN-MRS 1957); right humerus (MNHN-MRS 1476, 1477, 1491, 1728, 2001, 2002); right ischium (MNHN-MRS 1422, 2009); and numerous neural arch fragments (MNHN-MRS 1981–1983, 1990, 1992–1998).
Thoracosaurus cherifiensis n. sp. Lavocat 1955
de Lapparent de Broin 2002 1 individual
recombined as Elosuchus cherifiensis
MNHN MRS 338, 340
Coelacanthimorpha - Coelacanthiformes - Mawsoniidae
Mawsonia lavocati n. sp. Tabaste 1963
Tabaste 1963 1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Morocco State/province:Drâa-Tafilalet County:Errachidia
Coordinates: 30.5° North, 4.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:17.8° North, 4.8° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:694 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
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 Formation:Gara Sbaa
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Stratigraphy comments: orig. "Continental Intercalaire", now part of the "Kem Kem beds"

Gara Sbaa Fm. following Ibrahim et al. (2020)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:lenticular conglomeratic claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Associated major elements:some
Disassociated major elements:some
Disassociated minor elements:some
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (float),surface (in situ),field collection,observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:MNHN
Collectors:R. Lavocat Collection dates:1949–1952
Metadata
Also known as:Gara es Sbaa, Gara Sbâ
Database number:59771
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-04-11 07:39:39 Last modified:2022-08-22 20:30:32
Access level:the public Released:2006-04-11 07:39:39
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
17115.ETE R. Lavocat. 1951. Découverte de restes d'un grand Dinosaurien sauropode dans le Crétacé du Sud marocain [Discovery of remains of a large sauropod dinosaur in the Cretaceous of southern Morocco]. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences à Paris 232:169-170 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

54123 Anonymous. 1952. Un dinosaure au Sahara [A dinosaur in the Sahara]. La Nature 80:147 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
37302 L. Cavin, H. Tong, L. Boudad, C. Meister, A. Piuz, J. Tabouelle, M. Aarab, R. Amiot, E. Buffetaut, G. Dyke, S. Hua and J. Le Loeuff. 2010. Vertebrate assemblages from the early Late Cretaceous of southeastern Morocco: An overview. Journal of African Earth Sciences 57:391-412 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
60341 P. J. Currie and K. Padian. 1997. Institute de Paléontologie, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. In P. J. Currie & K. Padian (ed.), Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs 368-369 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
34429ETE F. de Lapparent de Broin. 2002. Elosuchus, a new genus of crocodile from the Lower Cretaceous of the north of Africa. Comptes Rendus Palevol 1:275-285 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
82457 N. Ibrahim, P. C. Sereno, D. J. Varricchio, D. M. Martill, D. B. Dutheil, D. M. Unwin, L. Baidder, H. C. E. Larsson, S. Zouhri and A. Kaoukaya. 2020. Geology and paleontology of the Upper Cretaceous Kem Kem Group of eastern Morocco. Zookeys 928:1-216 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
33038 R. Lavocat. 1952. Les gisement de Dinosauriens du Crétacés du Sud marocain [The dinosaur locality in the Cretaceous of southern Morocco]. Comptes Rendus Sommaire de la Société Géologique de France 1952:12-13 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
29347ETE R. Lavocat. 1954. Sur les dinosauriens du Continental Intercalaire des Kem-Kem de la Daoura [On the dinosaurs from the Continental Intercalaire of the Kem Kem of the Doura]. Congrés Géologique International, Comptes Rendus de la Dix-Neuvième Session, Section 13 15:65-68 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
52014 M. Monbaron. 1979. Nouvelles recherches sur les gisements de Dinosauriens du synclinal de Taguelft (Atlas de Beni-Mellal): discussion sur leur position stratigraphique [New research on the dinosaur localities of the Taguelft syncline (Beni-Mellal Atlas): discussion on their stratigraphic position]. Mines, Géologie et Energie 46:57-61 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
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]
70903 P. Taquet. 2010. The dinosaurs of Maghreb: the history of their discovery. Historical Biology 22(1–3):88-99 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
55590 J. A. Wilson and R. Allain. 2015. Osteology of Rebbachisaurus garasbae Lavocat, 1954, a diplodocoid (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the early Late Cretaceous–aged Kem Kem beds of southeastern Morocco. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 35(4):e1000701:1-33 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion]