CDUE locality 102, Izarefen (Triassic of Morocco)

Where: Marrakech-Safi, Morocco (31.0° N, 9.0° W: paleocoordinates 7.4° N, 5.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• lower part of the Irohalene Member (T5)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: wet floodplain; brown, red, cherty/siliceous sandstone

• "The depositional environment of this part of the Irohalene Member is interpreted as wet red beds (comp. Schneider et al. 2010) of a flood basin, transitional to a distal braid plain."
• "reddish brown sandstone slab"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by Zouheir et al. in 2016-2017

Collection methods: surface (float),

Primary reference: T. Zouheir, A. Hminna, H. Klein, A. Lagnaoui, H. Saber and J. W. Schneider. 2018. Unusual archosaur trackway and associated tetrapod ichnofauna from Irohalene member (Timezgadiouine Formation, Late Triassic, Carnian) of the Argana Basin, western High Atlas, Morocco. Historical Biology 32(5):589-601 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 230179: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 18.05.2023

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Theropoda - Grallatoridae
Grallator sp.
Grallator sp. Hitchcock 1858 theropod
CDUE 460–461, two isolated left pes imprints
 Pseudosuchia - Chirotheriidae
Brachychirotherium sp.
Brachychirotherium sp. Beurlen 1950 archosaur
CDUE 458, incomplete isolated left pes imprint