Tegana Formation
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The Tegana Formation is a geological formation in Morocco whose strata date back to the Early Cretaceous
Early Cretaceous
The Early Cretaceous or the Lower Cretaceous , is the earlier or lower of the two major divisions of the Cretaceous...

. It is a subsidiary of the Kem Kem Beds
Kem Kem Beds
The Kem Kem Beds is a geological formation in Morocco and Algeria whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous...

. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.

Vertebrate paleofauna

  • Carcharodontosaurus
    Carcharodontosaurus
    Carcharodontosaurus was a gigantic carnivorous carcharodontosaurid dinosaur that lived around 100 to 93 million years ago, during the late Albian to early Cenomanian stages of the mid-Cretaceous Period...

     saharicus
  • Rebbachisaurus
    Rebbachisaurus
    Rebbachisaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur of the superfamily Diplodocoidea, up to 20 meters long, that lived during the Early-Late Cretaceous period in Africa about 99 million years ago. This massive four-legged plant-eating animal had a small head, a long, graceful neck and a whiplike...

     garasbae
    - "Dorsal vertebrae, scapula, humerus, [and] sacrum."
  • Theropoda
    Theropoda
    Theropoda is both a suborder of bipedal saurischian dinosaurs, and a clade consisting of that suborder and its descendants . Dinosaurs belonging to the suborder theropoda were primarily carnivorous, although a number of theropod groups evolved herbivory, omnivory, and insectivory...

     indet. (=Elaphrosaurus
    Elaphrosaurus
    Elaphrosaurus is a genus of theropod dinosaur from the Kimmeridgian stage of the Late Jurassic of Tanzania. Elaphrosaurus was probably a ceratosaur about 6 meters long. Suggestions that it is a late surviving coelophysoid have been entertained but are generally dismissed. It was first...

     sp.) (Possibly Spinostropheus
    Spinostropheus
    Spinostropheus is a genus of small ceratosaurian dinosaur that lived in the late Jurassic period of Niger. Once thought to be a species closely related to the abelisaurs , subsequent studies have confirmed the original interpretation as a basal ceratosaur closely related to Elaphrosaurus...

    )
  • Velociraptorinae
    Velociraptorinae
    Velociraptorinae is a subfamily of the theropod group Dromaeosauridae. Velociraptorine remains are found mostly in northern hemisphere. In Late Cretaceous, they are mostly present in Mongolia, Romania and China,and in early, in USA. The earliest velociraptorines are probably Nuthetes from the...

    indet.
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