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Hello everyone! Details of an outcrop of the Ifezouane Fm (Upper Cretaceous- Lower Cenomanian) in southern Morocco. This outcrop is very close to the border with Algeria. Sandstones and gravels have very well defined sedimentary structures, mainly cross stratification. Are a clear indicator of the current regime that possessed those ancient and enormous systems of braided rivers. In one of the photos you can also see one of the artificial tunnels excavated by local miners in search of large vertebrates, quite abundant! However, this type of sediment, deposited in a relatively high energy ...., accumulated the remains of many animals dragged by the current, also eroded and disarticulated. That is why it is very common to find isolated teeth and bones. But rarely articulated. The red color of a sediment that is seen in one of the photos is not Cretaceous! It is a recent breach deposited above the Cretaceous that lies at the foot of the slope. Greetings Juan

Hi all! Here I share with you a couple of jewels that I discovered a few months ago working on the yellow sandstones of the basal levels of the Ifezouane Formation (Upper Cretaceous Cenomanian of South of Morocco). The truth is that it was a huge surprise !. These are two scapulae, right and left of the same individual. But individual of what? I was astonished to recognize the absolute rarity of its characteristics. It has a very developed proximal epiphysis and with great articulation surface. Distal area is beautifully ornate! The autapomorphies are really rare !. It had been a long time since I had encountered something similar! Now I have begun to look for bibliography on similar remains to begin the first comparisons, but it is being complicated task .... I also enclosed a photo of the level at which I dug it !, fine-grained sandstones lenticularly interleaved (like patches) within gray marls. Any opinions? Thanks!