Also known as Oued el Hamman, Bou Hanifia large mammal locality

Where: Algeria (35.3° N, 0.1° W: paleocoordinates 35.2° N, 0.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Bou Hanifia Formation, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• Potassium-argon date on ash below the site gives an age of 12.18 +/- 1 Ma. NOW database gives an age of 11.2-9.5 Ma for the large mammal remains.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: surface (float), mechanical,

• Collection size is an approximation. Total number of specimens not published

Primary reference: R. Ameur. 1984. Découverte de nouveaux rongeurs dans la formation Miocène de Bou Hanifia (Algérie Occidentale). Géobios 17(2):167-175 [A. Behrensmeyer/S. Cote/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 34643: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Suzanne Cote on 14.09.2003

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