Also known as quarries of Sidi Daoui and Recette 4

Where: Morocco (34.3° N, 5.9° W: paleocoordinates 27.1° N, 7.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Selandian (61.6 - 59.2 Ma)

• Quarries of Sidi Daoui and Recette 4; originally described as probably basal Eocene (earliest Ypresian), but more recent evidence indictaes a Paleocene age; lowermost bed 1 of the mining lithostratigraphic terminology; exact level and locality unknown

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; phosphorite

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the MNHN

• specimens purchased from fossil dealers and local mine workers

Primary reference: E. Gheerbrant, J. Sudre, and H. Cappetta. 1996. A Palaeocene proboscidean from Morocco. Nature 383:68-70 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 68176: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 06.01.2007, edited by Mark Uhen and John Alroy

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