Locality XVI, Azendoh (Triassic of Morocco)

Also known as Alma

Where: Marrakech-Safi, Morocco (31.0° N, 9.0° W: paleocoordinates 7.4° N, 5.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• from base of T5 level; suggested to be a correlative of the Otischalkian and Sanfordian LVFs by Lucas (1998) and suggested to be Ischigualastian by Langer et al. (2010). PJW: Lucas (2018) puts this in the Otischalkian.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone and conglomerate

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by J.-M. Dutuit in 1965; reposited in the MNHN

Primary reference: J.-M. Dutuit. 1972. Découverte d'un Dinosaure ornithischien dans le Trias supérieur de l'Atlas occidental marocain [Discovery of an ornithischian dinosaur in the Upper Triassic of the Moroccan western Atlas]. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences à Paris, Série D 275:2841-2844 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 58618: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 16.02.2006, edited by Richard Butler

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Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Metoposauridae
Metoposaurus lyazidi2 tetrapod
XVI/1/66 to XV1/9/66, XVI/15/66 to XVI/20/66
Reptilia
 Parareptilia - Procolophonidae
Procolophonidae indet.1 Lydekker 1889 parareptile
 Phytosauria - Parasuchidae
"Paleorhinus magnoculus n. sp." = Parasuchus magnoculus1
"Paleorhinus magnoculus n. sp." = Parasuchus magnoculus1 Long and Murry 1995 archosaur
MNHM ALM 1, skull
 Pseudosuchia - Stagonolepididae
Paratypothoracisini indet.3 Parker 2007 aetosaur
MNHN ALM 508, 509, 510, three incomplete dorsal lateral plates
 Diapsida - Azendohsauridae
Azendohsaurus laaroussii n. gen. n. sp.
Azendohsaurus laaroussii n. gen. n. sp. Dutuit 1972 archosauromorph
ALM 424-4, ALM 424-5, ALM 351, ALM 353, ALM 355-3, ALM 365-17, ALM 365-18, ALM 365-20, ALM 365-21
Osteichthyes
 Dicynodontia - Stahleckeriidae
"Moghreberia nmachouensis" = Moghreberia nmachouensis1, "Azarifeneria robustus" = Moghreberia nmachouensis1, "Azarifeneria barrati" = Moghreberia nmachouensis1
"Moghreberia nmachouensis" = Moghreberia nmachouensis1 Dutuit 1980 dicynodont
"Azarifeneria robustus" = Moghreberia nmachouensis1 Dutuit 1980 dicynodont
"Azarifeneria barrati" = Moghreberia nmachouensis1 Dutuit 1980 dicynodont