Goulmima (BMNH collection) (Cretaceous of Morocco)

Also known as Asfla

Where: Morocco (31.9° N, 4.9° W: paleocoordinates 20.2° N, 4.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Mammites nodosoides ammonoid zone, Akrabou Formation, Early/Lower Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• These concretions contain a diverse ammonite fauna (Kennedy et al. 2008) indicative of the Mammites nodosoides biozone of the early Turonian (Cavin & Dutheil 1999). Where fossils are actively mined, there are typically two distinct units of concretions. A lower concretion bed, up to 1 metre thick, is generally poor in macrofossils although some ammonites are present. A second concretion bed, about 2 metres higher in the succession, is somewhat discontinuous (being absent at this level at Asfla itself) and often highly fossiliferous.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified, concretionary lime mudstone

• Marls and impure micrites with ovoid calcareous concretions

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: concretion, soft parts, original phosphate

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: K. M. Claeson, C. J. Underwood, and D. J. Ward. 2013. †Tingitanius enuimandibulus, a New Platyrhinid Batoid from the Turonian (Cretaceous) of Morocco and the Cretaceous Radiation of the Platyrhinidae. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33(5):1019-1036 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 150881: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 17.09.2013, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Rajiformes - Platyrhinidae
Tingitanius tenuimandibulus n. gen. n. sp. Claeson et al. 2013 guitarfish
 Rajiformes - Ptychotrygonidae
Asflapristis cristadentis n. gen. n. sp.3
Asflapristis cristadentis n. gen. n. sp.3 Villalobos-Segura et al. 2019 ray
Actinopteri
 Pycnodontiformes - Pycnodontidae
Polazzodus sp.2 Poyato-Ariza 2010
Anomoeodus "sp. A"2 Forir 1887
Anomoeodus "sp. B"2 Forir 1887
Paranursallia cavini n. sp.2 Cooper and Martill 2020
Neomesturus asflaensis n. gen. n. sp.2 Cooper and Martill 2020
 Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae
Grandemarinus gherisensis1 Cooper et al. 2023 gar
NHM PV P 74004