Also known as Ouarzazate Basin; between Skoura and Imassine village
Where: Morocco (31.1° N, 6.6° W: paleocoordinates 31.0° N, 6.9° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Aït Kandoula Formation, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
• Upper member; A late Miocene age, corresponding to the European Turolian Mammal age, is most likely for this fauna (Zouhri et al. 2012)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: alluvial fan; sandstone and conglomerate
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Local collectors and authors in 2010
Primary reference: S. Zouhri, D. Geraads, S. El Boughabi and A. El Harfi. 2012. Discovery of an Upper Miocene Vertebrate fauna near Tizi N’Tadderht, Skoura, Ouarzazate Basin (Central High Atlas, Morocco). Comptes Rendus Palevol 11:455-461 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 210194: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 26.05.2020
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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cf. Centrochelys sp. Gray 1872 spurred tortoise | |
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