First report on Cretaceous vertebrates from the Algerian Kem Kem beds. A new procoelous salamander from the Cenomanian, with remarks on African Caudata
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DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2017.11.019
Abstract: Abstract In northwestern Africa, the Kem Kem plateau is a major source of continental Cenomanian fossils. The plateau extends across the Algerian–Moroccan border but, unlike the intensely worked Moroccan part, the Algerian side of the… read more here.
Keywords: report cretaceous; kem beds; kem; kem kem ... See more keywords
A new ?chaoyangopterid (Pterosauria: Pterodactyloidea) from the Cretaceous Kem Kem beds of southern Morocco
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DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2020.104410
Abstract: Abstract A new genus and species of edentulous pterodactyloid pterosaur with a distinctive partial rostrum from the mid-Cretaceous (?Albian/Cenomanian) Kem Kem beds of southeast Morocco is described. The taxon is assigned to Chaoyangopteridae based upon… read more here.
Keywords: pterosauria pterodactyloidea; chaoyangopterid pterosauria; kem beds; kem ... See more keywords
New toothed pterosaurs (Pterosauria: Ornithocheiridae) from the middle Cretaceous Kem Kem beds of Morocco and implications for pterosaur palaeobiogeography and diversity
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DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2020.104413
Abstract: Abstract Pterodactyloid pterosaurs underwent a diversification in the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous, followed by a major turnover event in the mid-Cretaceous, when ornithocheirids and basal azhdarchoids were replaced by pteranodontids, nyctosaurids and azhdarchids in… read more here.
Keywords: toothed pterosaurs; diversity; kem beds; kem ... See more keywords
New theropod dinosaur remains from the Upper Cretaceous of the Kem Kem Group (Eastern Morocco) clarify spinosaurid morphology
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DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae109
Abstract: The Kem Kem Group is a lowermost lithostratigraphic unit from the Upper Cretaceous that extends along the border between Algeria and Morocco, in the northern region of Africa. This geological unit has yielded several tetrapod… read more here.
Keywords: kem kem; kem group; morocco; theropod ... See more keywords
A second peirosaurid crocodyliform from the Mid-Cretaceous Kem Kem Group of Morocco and the diversity of Gondwanan notosuchians outside South America
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DOI: 10.1098/rsos.211254
Abstract: Notosuchians are an extinct clade of terrestrial crocodyliforms with a particularly rich record in the late Early to Late Cretaceous (approx. 130–66 Ma) of Gondwana. Although much of this diversity comes from South America, Africa… read more here.
Keywords: kem group; record; group morocco; kem kem ... See more keywords
Geology and paleontology of the Upper Cretaceous Kem Kem Group of eastern Morocco
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DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.928.47517
Abstract: Abstract The geological and paleoenvironmental setting and the vertebrate taxonomy of the fossiliferous, Cenomanian-age deltaic sediments in eastern Morocco, generally referred to as the “Kem Kem beds”, are reviewed. These strata are recognized here as… read more here.
Keywords: kem group; large bodied; geology; eastern morocco ... See more keywords