Étude palynologique du passage Albien moyen-Albien supérieur du Bassin de Tarfaya (Sud-Ouest du Maroc) et nouvelles Données sur la province Afro-Sud-Américaine

The palaeoxylological record of Metapodocarpoxylon libanoticum (Edwards) Dupéron‐Laudoueneix et Pons and the Gondwana Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous continental biogeography

“…For example, the extreme similarity between Suchomimus from the Aptian of Niger and Baryonyx from the Barremian of Europe (Sereno et al , 1998) favours a dispersal event across the Tethyan seaway during the Early Cretaceous. This is also supported by the similarity between the Nigerian theropod Afrovenator and the American Torvosaurus (Sereno et al , 1994), the occurrence of the African theropod Elaphosaurus in the USA (Chure, 2001) or the recent find in the Albian of Morocco of the palynomorph Penetrapites mollis , previously known only from Southern USA (Bettar & Méon, 2001). The occurrence of the ornithischian Valdosaurus in the Lower Cretaceous of both Britain and Niger (Galton & Taquet, 1982) also supports this idea and Le Loeuff (1991) introduced an Afro‐Euro‐American palaeobioprovince for the Early Cretaceous.…”