Ibadanane Area I (Permian of Niger)

Also known as Moradi Fauna

Where: Agadez, Niger (18.8° N, 7.2° E: paleocoordinates 16.6° S, 8.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Moradi Formation (Izégouandane Group), Changhsingian (254.2 - 252.2 Ma)

• "The locality lies within the upper strata of the Moradi Formation, approximately 25 m below an unconformity at the base of the Téloua 1 Formation [...] The age of the Moradi Formation is poorly constrained, but paleontological evidence indicates a Late Permian age (Taquet, 1972; de Ricqlès and Taquet, 1982). This is based mainly on the presence of the Triassic ichnotaxon Chirotherium in the overlying Téloua 1 Formation (Ginsburg et al., 1966), and on the presence of pareiasaurs and captorhinids in the Moradi Formation, all other known Gondwanan captorhinids also being of supposedly Late Permian age (Modesto and Smith, 2001)." (Damiani, 2006)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; red claystone and conglomerate

• "Deposition of the upper part of the Moradi succession evidently occurred by episodic overbank flooding of meandering streams that flowed into a closed, semiarid continental basin." (Damiani et al. 2006)
• "The specimen was found within a thick succession of almost flat-lying, friable, dark reddish brown mudrocks interspersed with thin beds of indurated, matrix-supported intraformational conglomerate." (Damiani et al. 2006).

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C. Sidor, A. Maga, O. Ide, and others in 2003

Collection methods: mechanical,

• MNN = Musée National du Niger, Niamey

Primary reference: R. Damiani, C. A. Sidor, J. S. Steyer, R. M. H. Smith, H. C. E. Larsson, A. Maga, and O. Ide. 2006. The Vertebrate Fauna of the Upper Permian of Niger. V. The Primitive Temnospondyl Saharastega moradiensis. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26(3):559-572 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 68053: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 30.12.2006, edited by Torsten Liebrecht

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Taxonomic list

• not the same as Arlit paleobotanical collection (30357), which is 40 km away and Early Permian
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Amphibia
 Temnospondyli -
Saharastega moradiensis n. gen. n. sp.
Saharastega moradiensis n. gen. n. sp. Sidor et al. 2005 tetrapod
MNN MOR73 (type)
 Temnospondyli - Cochleosauridae
Nigerpeton ricqlesi
Nigerpeton ricqlesi Sidor et al. 2005 tetrapod
MNN MOR70, 82, 83