Crankyjob21 Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 ... But I don’t know the genus. It is from the upper Cretaceous, found in phosphate deposits from the Oulad Abdoun basin, Morocco. It is around 6cm in length. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaleoNoel Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 Looks like what is normally labelled as the elasmosaurid Zarafasaura oceanis 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crankyjob21 Posted December 29, 2020 Author Share Posted December 29, 2020 @PaleoNoel your right zarafasaura is the only plesiosaur from the area in Morocco Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 Zarafasaura oceanis, the only described species of elasmosaurid plesiosaur from the Maastrichtian phosphates out of Oulad Abdoun in Morocco: Vincent, Bardet, Pereda Suberbiola, Bouya, Amaghzaz & Meslouh, 2011. Zarafasaura oceanis, a new elasmosaurid (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Maastrichtian Phosphates of Morocco and the palaeobiogeography of latest Cretaceous plesiosaurs. Gondwana Research. 19. 1062-1073. Lomax and Wahl, 2013. A new specimen of the elasmosaurid plesiosaur Zarafasaura oceanis from the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) of Morocco. 1 'There's nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fibre and, in some cases, backbone' -- Terry Pratchett Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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