N'Tagourt 2 (Eocene of Morocco)

Also known as Adrar Mgorn 2 (Capetta, 1987)

Where: Morocco (31.5° N, 5.6° W: paleocoordinates 25.5° N, 7.6° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ait Ouarhitane Formation (Subatlas Group), Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• Very base of the formation

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; marl

• The Ouarzazate Basin is a foreland Basin according to Tawadros (2012, Geology of North Africa, Taylor & Francis).
• Lithology is from Augé & Rage (2006)

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: USTL = Laboratoire de Paléontologie, Université des Sciences et Techniques du Languedoc, Montpellier, France

Primary reference: J. Sudre, J.-J. Jaeger, B. Sige and M. Vianey-Liaud. 1993. Nouvelles donnes sur les Condylarthres du Thanetien et de l'Ypresien du bassin d'Ouarzazate (Maroc) [New data about the Thanetian and Ypresian Condylarthres of Ouarzazate basin (Morocco)]. Geobios 26(5):609-615 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 133216: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 05.09.2012, edited by Torsten Liebrecht

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Squamata -
Lacertilia indet.1 lizard
USTL NTG2-100 (fragment of dentary); NTG2-101 (fragment of dentigerous bone, assignment uncertain)
Coniophis sp.1 Marsh 1892 snake
USTL NTG2-103 (1 vertebra)
 Squamata - Madtsoiidae
Madtsoiidae indet.1 Hoffstetter 1961 snake
USTL NTG2-104 (1 vertebra)
 Squamata -
Amphisbaenia indet.1 worm lizard
USTL NTG2-102 (28 vertebrae)
Mammalia
 Theriamorpha -
Eutheria " sp. 1 "2 eutherian
NTG 2-5
Eutheria " sp. 2 "2 eutherian
NTG 2-9
Eutheria " sp. 3 "2 eutherian
NTG 2-21 (tooth)
Eutheria " sp. 4 "2 eutherian
NTG 2-20 (tooth)
Eutheria " sp. 5 "2 eutherian
NTG 2-31 (tooth)
 Proteutheria - Palaeoryctidae
cf. Palaeoryctes minimus2 Gheerbrant 1992 eutherian
Didelphodontinae " new "2 Simpson 1927 eutherian
NTG 2-13, 2-22, 2-27 and 2-34
 Cimolesta - Todralestidae
Todralestes butleri n. sp.2 Gheerbrant 1993 eutherian
NTG 2-32 - type (M1/2) and NTG 2-33 (upper molar)
 Theriamorpha - Adapisoriculidae
Adapisoriculidae indet.2 Van Valen 1967 eutherian
NTG 2-11, 2-24 and 2-30 (teeth)
Afrodon tagourtensis n. sp.2 Gheerbrant 1993 eutherian
NTG 2-23, 2-26, 2-35, 2-19, 2-25, 2-28, 2-29 (teeth)
 Macroscelidea - Apheliscidae
Khamsaconus bulbosus n. gen. n. sp.
Khamsaconus bulbosus n. gen. n. sp. Sudre et al. 1993 elephant shrew
NTG 2-50 - holotype (upper right molar) and NTG 2-51 (tooth)
 Placentalia -
Condylarthra indet.2 Cope 1881 placental
NTG 2-52 (tooth)