Wawmda, Tilougguit Basin (Jurassic of Morocco)

Where: Azilal, Morocco (32.0° N, 6.3° W: paleocoordinates 27.9° N, 4.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Guettioua Formation, Bathonian (168.3 - 166.1 Ma)

• basal beds of Guettioua Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: wet floodplain; lenticular, brown, yellow, silty sandstone and red siltstone

• "fresh or slightly brackish water"; "a vast plain close to sea level traversed by powerful rivers with anastomosing channels"
• "a suite of rede continental siltstones and sandstones, passing to intraformational conglomerates...The fossils were found in a sandy-silty discolored lens (reducing environment) with very numerous plant debris (leaves, wood)." (Monbaron & Taquet 1981); "The sauropod skeleton was extracted from a beige to brownb sandstone-pelitic lens"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Monbaron, Taquet, Ouazzou, Laaroussi in 1979–Sept 1980

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: M. Monbaron and P. Taquet. 1981. Découverte du squelette complet d'un grand Cétiosaure (Dinosaure Sauropode) dans le bassin jurassique moyen de Tilougguit (Haut-Atlas central, Maroc) [Discovery of a complete skeleton of a large cetiosaur (sauropod dinosaur) in the Middle Jurassic Tilougguit Basin (High Atlas, Morocco)]. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences à Paris, Série II 292:243-246 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 45941: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 14.12.2004

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Plantae indet.
Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Atlasaurus imelakei n. gen. n. sp.
Atlasaurus imelakei n. gen. n. sp. Monbaron et al. 1999 sauropod
Bivalvia
 Unionida - Unionidae
Unionidae indet.
Unionidae indet. Rafinesque 1820 freshwater mussel