Khemis (Ouled Haj): Early/Lower Pleistocene, Morocco
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Loxodonta africanavus
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Dicerorhinus sp.
Gloger 1841
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
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Rodentia indet.
Bowdich 1821
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Geography
| Country: | Morocco |
| Coordinates: | 32.0° North, 9.3° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 32.0° North, 9.4° West |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| *Period: | Early/Lower Quaternary | *Epoch: | Early/Lower Pleistocene | *Local age/stage: | Moulouyen |
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 2.58000 - 0.77400 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 28429 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Wertheim |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2003-02-13 12:17:30 | Last modified: | 2006-08-14 01:10:44 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2003-02-13 12:17:30 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 7833. | 5% 19680 | P. Michel. 1988. Decouverte d'un gisement de Vertebres fossiles du Pleistocene inferieur a Khemis, pres de Safi, Maroc [Discovery of a new lower pleistocene fossil vertebrate site at Khemis, near Safi, Marocco]. Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences, Serie 2 306:1051-1056 [J. Alroy/J. Wertheim/J. Alroy] |