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Globidens aegyptiacus Arambourg & Signeux, 1952

  

 

Remarks

  • Collection:    Lee Garrison
  • Formation:   Phosphates of Morocco
  • Location:      Morocco

 

General Info

 

Synonyms (general synonymy)

  • 1934 Does not = Globidens aegyptiacus Zdansky [Igdamanosaurus aegypticus (Zdansky, 1935)]
  • 1939 Does not = Globidens (?) stromeri Kuhn [nomen nudum ??]
  • 1949 Does not = Globidens fraasi Dollo [Carinodens belgicum (Woodward, 1891)]
  • 1952 = Globidens aegyptiacus Arambourg & Signeux
  • 1959 = Globidens aegyptiacus Arambourg & Signeux; Arambourg, Dubertret, Signeux, & Sornay
  • 2002 = Globidens sp. Bardet & Suberbiola

 

Stratigraphic Occurrence

  • Belqa Group, Al Hasa Phosphorite Formation of Jordan
  • Phosphates of Morocco
  • Maastrichtian deposits of Egypt
  • Maastrichtian deposits of Israel
  • Maastrichtian deposits of Syria

 

Age

  • Globidens aegyptiacus Arambourg & Signeux is a Late Maastrichtian mosasaur (~66 mya).

 

Geographic Occurrence (not an all-inclusive list)

  • Egypt
  • Israel
  • Jordan
  • Morocco
  • Syria

 

Remarks

       For more information, see:

  • Avnimelech, M. 1949.  On vertebrate remains in Senonian phosphate beds in Transjordan.  Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae, 42, 486-490.

  • Arambourg, C.; Dubertret, L.; Signeux, J & Sornay, J.  1959.  Contributions à la stratigraphie et à la paléontology du Crétacé et du Nummulitique de la marge NW de la Péninsule arabique.  Notes et Mémoires sur le Moyen-Orient, 7, 193-251.

  • Bardet, N. & Suberbiola, X. P.  2002.  Marine Reptiles from the Late Cretaceous Phosphates of Jordan.  Geodiversitas, 24(4), 831-839, figs. A, E, & F.

  • Avnimelech, M. 1949.  On vertebrate remains in Senonian phosphate beds in Transjordan.  Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae, 42, 486-490.

  • Arambourg, C.; Dubertret, L.; Signeux, J & Sornay, J.  1959.  Contributions à la stratigraphie et à la paléontology du Crétacé et du Nummulitique de la marge NW de la Péninsule arabique.  Notes et Mémoires sur le Moyen-Orient, 7, 193-251.

  • Bardet, N. & Suberbiola, X. P.  2002.  Marine Reptiles from the Late Cretaceous Phosphates of Jordan.  Geodiversitas, 24(4), 831-839, figs. A, E, & F.

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