Bibliothèque cantonale jurassienne

Une moisson de fossiles au Maroc

Gheerbrant, Emmanuel ; Jalil, Nour-Eddine

In: Pour la science : revue mensuelle, 2007, vol. 352, p. 3

Université de Fribourg

An abelisauroid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the early Jurassic of the high atlas mountains, Morocco, and the radiation of Ceratosaurs

Allain, Ronan ; Tykoski, Ronald ; Aquesbi, Najat ; Jalil, Nour-Eddine ; Monbaron, Michel ; Russell, Dale ; Taquet, Philippe

In: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2007, vol. 27, no. 3, p. 610–624

The fossil record of abelisauroid carnivorous dinosaurs was previously restricted to Cretaceous sediments of Gondwana and probably Europe. The discovery of an incomplete specimen of a new basal abelisauroid, Berberosaurus liassicus, gen. et sp. nov., is reported from the late Early Jurassic of Moroccan High Atlas Mountains. Phylogenetic analysis recovers Ceratosauroidea and Coelophysoidea as...