Also known as El Mers 4

Where: Boulemane, Morocco (33.5° N, 4.3° W: paleocoordinates 28.3° N, 2.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: El Mers Formation, Middle Bathonian to Middle Bathonian (167.7 - 164.7 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; green, red, sandy, calcareous claystone and pyritic, green marl

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected in 1941

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: A. F. d. Lapparent. 1955. Étude paléontologique des vertébrés du Jurassique d'El Mers (Moyen Atlas) [Paleontological study of the Jurassic veretebrates from El Mers (Middle Atlas)]. Notes et Mémoires du Service Géologique du Maroc 124:1-36 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 45961: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 16.12.2004

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