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
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 | |
Tingitanius tenuimandibulus n. gen. n. sp.
Tingitanius tenuimandibulus n. gen. n. sp. Claeson et al. 2013 guitarfish | |
Asflapristis cristadentis n. gen. n. sp.3
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Actinopteri | |
Polazzodus sp.2, Anomoeodus "sp. A"2, Anomoeodus "sp. B"2, Paranursallia cavini n. sp.2, Neomesturus asflaensis n. gen. n. sp.2
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 | |
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