Locality XI, Alili n'yifis, Alma (Triassic of Morocco)

Also known as Gisement XI

Where: Marrakech-Safi, Morocco (31.1° N, 8.9° W: paleocoordinates 7.4° N, 5.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Irohalene Member (Timezgadiouine Formation), Carnian (237.0 - 228.0 Ma)

• Lower part of the T5 stratigraphic unit

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Dutuit in the 1970s; reposited in the MNHN

Primary reference: M. Martin. 1980. Dipteronotus gibbosus (Actinopterygi, Chondrostei), nouveau colobodontidé du Trias supérieur continental marocain [Dipteronotus gibbosus (Actinopterygi, Chondrostei), new colobodontid from the Moroccan continental Upper Triassic]. Géobios 13(3):445-449 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 94786: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 15.03.2010, edited by Matthew Carrano and Bethany Allen

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Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Redfieldiiformes - Brookvaliidae
cf. Ischnolepis sp.3 Haughton 1934 ray-finned fish
MNHN Alm 310-311
cf. Atopocephala sp.3 Brough 1934 ray-finned fish
MNHN Alm 321
Reptilia
 Loricata - Rauisuchidae
Arganasuchus dutuiti1 Jalil and Peyer 2007 rauisuchid
MNHN ALM 1-6, maxilla and mandibular fragments
Osteichthyes
 Dicynodontia -
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Almasauridae
Almasaurus habbazi4 Dutuit 1972 tetrapod
 Temnospondyli - Metoposauridae
Metoposauridae indet.1 Watson 1919 tetrapod
Actinopteri
 Perleidiformes - Colobodontidae
cf. Procheirichthys sp.3 Wade 1935
MNHN Alm 318, 319a, b, 320
 Perleidiformes - Perleididae
Dipteronotus gibbosus n. sp. Martin 1980
MNHN Alm 301, 302, 306-309
cf. Perleidus sp.3 de Alessandri 1910
Osteichthyes
 Palaeonisciformes - Redfieldiidae
Mauritanichthys rugosus n. gen. n. sp.2
Mauritanichthys rugosus n. gen. n. sp.2 Martin 1980
MNHN Alm 312-315