Cretaceous geology and stratigraphy of Morocco and adjacent coastal basins

W Kuhnt, A Holbourn, M Aquit, S Beil… - Geological Society …, 2025 - lyellcollection.org
The Cretaceous marine sediments of Morocco and adjacent coastal basins provide an
outstanding archive of environmental diversity from extended shelf seas and marginal …

Thalassotitan atrox, a giant predatory mosasaurid (Squamata) from the Upper Maastrichtian Phosphates of Morocco

NR Longrich, NE Jalil, F Khaldoune, OK Yazami… - Cretaceous …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) transition saw mass extinctions in terrestrial
and marine ecosystems. Terrestrial vertebrate diversity patterns across the K–Pg boundary …

New records of Theropoda from a Late Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian) locality in the Magallanes-Austral Basin, Patagonia, and insights into end Cretaceous …

SN Davis, S Soto-Acuña, RA Fernández… - Journal of South …, 2023 - Elsevier
The end Cretaceous mass extinction was marked by a dramatic change in biodiversity, and
the extinction of all non-avian dinosaurs. To understand the diversity of dinosaur clades prior …

Highly variable content of fluorapatite-hosted CO32− in the Upper Cretaceous/Paleogene phosphorites (Morocco) and implications for paleodepositional conditions

J Aubineau, F Parat, A Elghali, O Raji, A Addou… - Chemical …, 2022 - Elsevier
Phosphorus (P) usually occurs as microcrystalline minerals of carbonate fluorapatite (CFA)
in sediments of upwelling-related areas. The Upper Cretaceous/Paleogene marine …

Pluridens serpentis, a new mosasaurid (Mosasauridae: Halisaurinae) from the Maastrichtian of Morocco and implications for mosasaur diversity

NR Longrich, N Bardet, F Khaldoune, OK Yazami… - Cretaceous …, 2021 - Elsevier
Mosasaurids (Mosasauridae) were specialized marine lizards that evolved and radiated in
the Late Cretaceous. Their diversity peaked in the Maastrichtian, with the most diverse …

Gradual changes in upwelled seawater conditions (redox, pH) from the late Cretaceous through early Paleogene at the northwest coast of Africa: Negative Ce …

L Kocsis, E Gheerbrant, M Mouflih, H Cappetta… - Chemical …, 2016 - Elsevier
Marine vertebrate fossils from late Cretaceous–early Paleogene shallow marine
phosphorites of Morocco were investigated for their trace element compositions and …

Mosasaurids (Squamata) from the Maastrichtian phosphates of Morocco: biodiversity, palaeobiogeography and palaeoecology based on tooth morphoguilds

N Bardet, A Houssaye, P Vincent, XP Suberbiola… - Gondwana …, 2015 - Elsevier
Mosasaurid squamates are the most numerically abundant, and taxonomically/ecologically
diverse clade of marine amniotes represented in the Maastrichtian Phosphates of Morocco …

Xenodens calminechari gen. et sp. nov., a bizarre mosasaurid (Mosasauridae, Squamata) with shark-like cutting teeth from the upper Maastrichtian of Morocco, North …

NR Longrich, N Bardet, AS Schulp, NE Jalil - Cretaceous Research, 2021 - Elsevier
The mosasaurids (Mosasauridae) were a group of lizards that became highly specialized for
marine life in the mid-Cretaceous. By the end of the Cretaceous, they had undergone an …

The Moroccan High Atlas phosphate-rich sediments: Unraveling the accumulation and differentiation processes

R El Bamiki, M Séranne, EH Chellaï, G Merzeraud… - Sedimentary …, 2020 - Elsevier
The phosphate series of the Moroccan High Atlas accumulated during the Upper
Cretaceous-Paleogene phosphogenic period, on a biologically-productive shallow-water …

[HTML][HTML] Shifts in composition of northern Tethyan elasmobranch assemblages during the last millennia of the Cretaceous

I Feichtinger, J Pollerspöck, M Harzhauser, G Auer… - Cretaceous …, 2023 - Elsevier
Extensive bulk sampling of seven horizons of a continuous succession deposited in an outer
neritic environment of the latest Maastrichtian yielded more than three thousand ichthyoliths …