Locality XXII, Tikida (Permian of Morocco)

Also known as Argana Basin

Where: Marrakech-Tensift-Al Haouz, Morocco (30.8° N, 9.1° W: paleocoordinates 2.0° N, 3.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tourbihine Member (Ikakern Formation), Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• Data taken from Jalil and Janvier (2005). Tourbihine Member of Ikakern Formation corresponds to Level T2 of Argana Formation in Dutuit (1976).

•Tourbihine mbr. is Uppermost Capitanian to Lower Wuchiapingian according to Roscher & Schneider (2006, fig. 15 b). Because all the vertebrates come from the upper levels of the Tourbihine mbr. (Jalil and Janvier, 2005 fig. 2A), the collection is classified here as Wuchiapingian.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red sandstone and conglomerate

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J.-M. Dutuit in 1974, 1975; reposited in the MNHN

Primary reference: J.-M. Dutuit. 1976. Il est probable que les Rhynchocéphales sont représentés dans la faune du Trias marocain. Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Academie des Sciences Paris, Série D 283:483-486 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 89607: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 04.06.2009

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Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Nectridea - Diplocaulidae
Diplocaulus minimus n. sp.1 Dutuit 1988 tetrapod
MNHN ARG 500 (syntype), ARG 501 (holotype), 502
Reptilia
 Procolophonomorpha -
Pareiasauria indet.3 Seeley 1888 parareptile
MNHN ARG 504, 505, 509-513 (all of this material was previously identified as moradisaurine by Jalil & Dutuit (1996))
Arganaceras vacanti n. gen. n. sp.3 Jalil and Janvier 2005 parareptile
MNHN ARG 518 (type)
 Eureptilia - Captorhinidae
Moradisaurinae indet.2 de Ricqlès and Taquet 1982 eureptile
MNHN ARG 507, 508 (described and figured as 74.XXIII.1.JMD and 74.XXIII.2.JMD, respectively, in Dutuit (1976))