Oulad Hamida 1 - Rhino Cave: Middle Pleistocene, Morocco

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Vulpes cf. rueppelli Schinz 1825
Geraads 2011
Reptilia
Aves indet. Linnaeus 1758
Raynal et al. 1993
several species (names not given)
Squamata indet. (Oppel 1811)
Raynal et al. 1993
Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae
Testudo sp. Linnaeus 1758
Raynal et al. 1993
Mammalia - Chiroptera
Chiroptera indet. Blumenbach 1779
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
Ursus bibersoni
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Canis aff. adustus Sundevall 1847
recombined as Schaeffia adusta
Lycaon magnus Ewer and Singer 1956
Geraads 2011
Lupulella mohibi n. sp. Geraads 2011
Geraads 2011
GDR-7966 (holotype), mostly complete cranium
Mammalia - Carnivora - Hyaenidae
Crocuta crocuta (Erxleben 1777)
Hyaena hyaena (Linnaeus 1758)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Panthera leo (Linnaeus 1758)
Felis cf. sylvestris
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus cf. mauritanicus
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Ceratotherium simum (Burchell 1821)
Mammalia - Suidae
Phacochoerus cf. africanus (Gmelin 1788)
Mammalia - Camelidae
Camelus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Bovidae
Gazella cf. atlantica Bourguignat 1870
? Oryx sp. de Blainville 1816
? Damaliscus sp. Sclater and Thomas 1894
Connochaetes sp. (Lichtenstein 1812)
Parmularius cf. angusticornis (Schwarz 1937)
Pelorovis ? antiquus (Duvernoy 1851)
Mammalia - Soricidae
Crocidura darelbeidae
Crocidura cf. tarfayaensis
Mammalia - Erinaceidae
Erinaceidae indet. Fischer von Waldheim 1817
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Lepus cf. capensis Linnaeus 1758
Serengetilagus raynali
Mammalia - Rodentia - Hystricidae
Hystrix cf. cristata Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Ellobius atlanticus
Mammalia - Rodentia - Muridae
Meriones maximus
Meriones maghrebianus
Meriones maghrebianus hamidae
Gerbillus grandis
Gerbillus grandis minor
Gerbillus cf. campestris
Praomys darelbeidae
Paraethomys tighennifae
Mus hamidae
Mammalia - Rodentia - Gliridae
Eliomys darelbeidae
Mammalia - Primates - Cercopithecidae
Theropithecus cf. oswaldi (Andrews 1916)
see common names

Geography
Country:Morocco County:Casablanca
Coordinates: 33.6° North, 7.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.6° North, 7.6° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
Stage:Chibanian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Middle Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.77400 - 0.12900 m.y. ago
Age estimate:0.45 ± 0.05 Ma (unknown)
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Middle Pleistocene, approx 0.4Ma. there are 13 different layers within the cave filling, only one of which contains fauna (CGDR or continental 'Grotte des Rhinocéros').
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:cave
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:salvage,field collection
Reason for describing collection:archaeological analysis
Collection method comments: Discovered in 1991 in a working quarry. Stone tool assemblage contains several thousand artefacts.
Taxonomic list comments:Abundant rhinoceros remains. Arid environment rodents and large grazing mammals suggest an open, dry landscape.
Metadata
Also known as:OH1-GDR, Grotte des Rhinocéros
Database number:34330
Authorizer:A. Turner, B. Allen Enterer:H. O'Regan, B. Allen
Modifier:B. Allen Research group:PACED
Created:2003-08-27 06:07:24 Last modified:2023-07-28 06:37:55
Access level:the public Released:2003-08-27 06:07:24
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
9013.PACED D. Geraads. 2002. Plio-Pleistocene mammalian biostratigraphy of Atlantic Morocco. Quaternaire 13(1):43-53 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]

Secondary references:

85455 D. Geraads. 2011. A revision of the fossil Canidae (Mammalia of north-western Africa. Palaeontology 54(2):429-446 [B. Allen/B. Allen]
9022PACED J.P. Raynal, D. Geraads, L. Magoga, A. El Hajraoui, J.P. Texier, D. Lefevre, and F.Z. Sbihi-Alaoui. 1993. La Grotte des Rhinoceros (Carriere Oulad Hamida 1, anciennement Thomas III, Casablanca), nouveau site acheuleen du Maroc atlantique. Comptes Rendues de l'Academie des Sciences Paris, Series II 316:1477-1483 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]
9023PACED E. J. Rhodes, J. P. Raynal, D. Geraads and F. Z. Sbihi-Alaoui. 1994. Premieres dates RPE pour l'Acheuleen du Maroc atlantique (Grotte des Rhinoceros, Casablanca). Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences, Paris, Serie II 319:1109-1115 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]