Africa

Understanding this collection

Browse field notes with corroborated African occurrences, including Tanzanian Jurassic sites and North African Cretaceous deposits. A continent-wide label does not imply one ecosystem, and incomplete remains require caution in size comparisons.

Membership reflects corroborated modern discovery locations in the retained occurrence sample. It is not a complete fossil census or a map of ancient continents.

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