Tizi N’Tadderht (Miocene of Morocco)

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

• sandstone and especially conglomerates

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

unclassified
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Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
cf. Ceratotherium sp. Gray 1868 white rhino
FSC, Erfoud specimens
aff. Chilotherium sp. Ringström 1924 rhinoceros
FSAC
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
cf. Hippotherium primigenium von Meyer 1829 hipparionine horse
FSAC
Hippotheriini indet. Bonaparte 1850 horse
FSAC
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Bovidae "gen. et sp. indet. A" Gray 1821 antelope
Erfoud specimen
cf. Prostrepsiceros sp. Forsyth Major 1891 antelope
FSAC
 Artiodactyla - Giraffidae
Giraffidae indet. Gray 1821 giraffe
FSAC 738283/3444137
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
cf. Tetralophodon sp. Falconer 1857 gomphothere
Erfoud specimen
Reptilia
 Testudines - Testudinidae
cf. Centrochelys sp. Gray 1872 spurred tortoise
 Crocodylia - Crocodylidae
Crocodylus cf. niloticus Laurenti 1768 Nile crocodile
Erfoud specimen
Aves
 Struthioniformes - Struthionidae
cf. Struthio sp. Linnaeus 1758 ostrich
FSAC 739770/3450916