Grand Daoui area, Ypresian (Eocene of Morocco)

Where: Chaouia-Ouardigha, Morocco (32.9° N, 6.6° W: paleocoordinates 27.0° N, 8.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• "Most come from the Bed I and some from the Intercalary Bed II/I, that is, from the lower part of the Ypresian."

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified phosphorite and lithified, calcareous phosphorite

• Bed I is one of the "more or less soft phosphatic levels" and the Intercalary bed II/I is one of the "hard calcareous phosphatic beds" in the Lower Eocene phosphatic succession of the Oulad Abdoun basin.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

• The Palaeophis maghrebianus material consists of isolated vertebrae as well as of several articulated sections of the vertebral column.

Preservation: original phosphate

Collection methods: The new material of Palaeophis maghrebianus is housed in the collections of the Office Chérifien des Phosphates, Casablanca, Morocco (OCP).

Primary reference: A. Houssaye, J.-C. Rage, N. Bardet, P. Vincent, M. Amaghzaz and S. Meeslouh. 2013. New highlights about the enigmatic marine snake Palaeophis maghrebianus (Palaeophiidae; Palaeophiinae) from the Ypresian (Lower Eocene) Phosphates of Morocco. Palaeontology [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/T. Liebrecht]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 87890: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 27.03.2009

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Taxonomic list

• Part of the material of Palaeophis maghrebianus originally described and listed by Arambourg (1952) probably also comes from the Grand Doui area although not explicitly stated in that work.
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Mammalia
 Embrithopoda -
Stylolophus minor n. gen. n. sp.
Stylolophus minor n. gen. n. sp. Gheerbrant et al. 2018 placental
Reptilia
 Squamata - Palaeophiidae
Palaeophis maghrebianus
Palaeophis maghrebianus Arambourg 1952 snake
articulated parts of the precloacal vertebral column (OCP DEK/GE 95, 418, and 536), isolated precloacal vertebrae (OCP DEK/GE 500 to 535 and 537 to 646)