Also known as DAK-Arg C2
Where: Morocco (23.5° N, 15.9° W: paleocoordinates 22.2° N, 18.5° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Samlat Formation, Early/Lower Oligocene (33.9 - 28.4 Ma)
• uppermost part of the Samlat Formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; sandy conglomerate
Size class: mesofossils
Preservation: original phosphate
Collected in 2013-2015
Collection methods: sieve,
• Wet-screening of several tons of sediment
Primary reference: L. Marivaux, S. Adnet, M. Benammi, R. Tabuce, and M. Benammi. 2017. Anomaluroid rodents from the earliest Oligocene of Dakhla, Morocco, reveal the long-lived and morphologically conservative pattern of the Anomaluridae and Nonanomaluridae during the Tertiary in Africa. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 15(7):539-569 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 181052: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 16.08.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Oromys zenkerellinopsis n. gen. n. sp., Argouburus minutus n. gen. n. sp., Paranomalurus riodeoroensis n. sp.
Oromys zenkerellinopsis n. gen. n. sp. Marivaux et al. 2017 scaly-tailed squirrel DAK-Arg-009 - holotype
Paranomalurus riodeoroensis n. sp. Marivaux et al. 2017 scaly-tailed squirrel DAK-Arg-001 - type; referred specimens: DAK-Arg-002, 005, 006, 008
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Nonanomalurus parvus n. sp.
Nonanomalurus parvus n. sp. Marivaux et al. 2017 rodent DAK-Arg-011 - type; referred specimens: DAK-ARG-003, 005, 007
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