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
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