Where: Meknès-Tafilalet, Morocco (31.6° N, 5.7° W: paleocoordinates 24.8° N, 7.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Jbel Guersif Formation (Subatlas Group), Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)
• Lithostratigraphy is from Augé & Rage (2006) and Dragastan & Herbig (2007, Micropaleontology 53(1-2), 1-72). (TL)
•Dragastan & Herbig (2007) assign a lower Thanetian age to the Jbel Guersif Fm.
Environment/lithology: peritidal; dolomitic, shelly/skeletal limestone
•"For the late Thanetian Jbel Guersif Formation, Kuss and Herbig (1993, figs. 5, 6) deduced a tidal flat and restricted lagoon in the easternmost 30 kilometers of the outcrop area around Tinerhir [...]" (Dragastan & Herbig, 2007), which geographically exactly applies for Adrar Mgorn.
•According to the latter two quotes, the original environment entry >>marginal marine indet.<< was altered (TL).
•The Ouarzazate Basin is a foreland Basin according to Tawadros (2012).
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the MNHN
Primary reference: E. Gheerbrant. 1994. Les mammifères paléocènes du Bassin d'Ouarzazate (Maroc). II. Todralestidae (Eutheria, Proteutheria). Palaeontographica Abteilung A 231(4-6):133-188 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 133243: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 07.09.2012, edited by Torsten Liebrecht
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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