Garitas, B2 (Eocene of Western Sahara)

Where: Western Sahara (23.3° N, 16.1° W: paleocoordinates 21.4° N, 19.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Guerran Member (Samlat Formation), Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; conglomeratic sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: S. Zouhri, P. D. Gingerich, B. Khalloufi, N. Elboudali, A. Amane, W. Bouzarzar, and O. Saddiqi. 2019. The middle-upper Eocene Vertebrate record from Taraya-Laayoune-Dakhla Antlantic Basin (Morocco). International Symposium 60 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 206020: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 28.10.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Sirenia - Dugongidae
cf. Eotheroides sp. Palmer 1899 dugong
 Sirenia - Protosirenidae
Protosirenidae indet. Sickenberg 1934 sirenian
size of Protosiren smithae
 Cetacea - Basilosauridae
Basilosaurus sp. Harlan 1834 whale