Grand Daoui, Lithoptila type specimen: Thanetian, Morocco

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Phaethontiformes - Prophaethontidae
Lithoptila abdounensis n. gen., n. sp. Bourdon 2005
Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Dasyatidae
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Scyliorhinidae
Foumtizia abdouni Noubhani and Cappetta 1997
Premontreia (Oxyscyllium) subulidens (Arambourg 1952)
Abdounia africana (Arambourg 1952)
see common names

Geography
Country:Morocco
Coordinates: 32.9° North, 6.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:26.1° North, 8.0° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Paleocene
Stage:Thanetian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 1
Key time interval:Thanetian
Age range of interval:59.20000 - 56.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Member:Bed IIa
Stratigraphy comments: assigned to Bed IIa on the basis of associated selachians
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified phosphorite
Lithology description: "phosphatic bed" and specimen is clearly lithified
Environment:coastal indet.
Geology comments: "marine deposits of an epicontinental sea" that were laid down in "proximity of the shore"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: "collected by local people... and sold to the Office Chérifien des Phosphates"
Taxonomic list comments:"selachians [were] identified in the matrix"
Metadata
Also known as:Grand Daoui; Oued Zem
Database number:86295
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2009-01-27 19:51:27 Last modified:2020-11-18 08:27:49
Access level:the public Released:2009-01-27 19:51:27
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
29076. E. Bourdon, B. Bouya, and M. Iarochene. 2005. Earliest African neornithine bird: a new species of Prophaethontidae (Aves) from the Paleocene of Morocco. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25(1):157-170 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]