CDUE locality 110, Izarefen (Triassic of Morocco)

Where: Marrakech-Safi, Morocco (31.0° N, 9.0° W: paleocoordinates 7.4° N, 5.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Irohalene Member (Timezgadiouine Formation), Carnian (237.0 - 228.0 Ma)

• lower part of the Irohalene Member (T5)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: wet floodplain; cherty/siliceous sandstone

• "The depositional environment of this part of the Irohalene Member is interpreted as wet red beds (comp. Schneider et al. 2010) of a flood basin, transitional to a distal braid plain."

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by Zouheir et al. in 2016-2017

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: T. Zouheir, A. Hminna, H. Klein, A. Lagnaoui, H. Saber and J. W. Schneider. 2018. Unusual archosaur trackway and associated tetrapod ichnofauna from Irohalene member (Timezgadiouine Formation, Late Triassic, Carnian) of the Argana Basin, western High Atlas, Morocco. Historical Biology 32(5):589-601 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 230181: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 18.05.2023

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Theropoda - Grallatoridae
Grallator sp.
Grallator sp. Hitchcock 1858 theropod
CDUE 462, an isolated right pes imprint