Oued el Hammam: Late/Upper Miocene, Algeria

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Tubulidentata - Orycteropodidae
Orycteropus mauritanicus Arambourg 1954
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Mastodon sp. Cuvier 1817
synonym of Mammut
Turicius sp. Osborn 1926
synonym of Zygolophodon
Mammalia - Carnivora - Hyaenidae
Hyaena algeriensis
Mammalia - Giraffidae
Samotherium sp. Forsyth Major 1888
Palaeotragus germaini Arambourg 1959
Mammalia - Bovidae
Tragocerus sp. Gaudry 1861
Gazella praegaudryi Arambourg 1959
Damalavus boroccoi Arambourg 1959
Cephalophus sp. Smith 1827
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hipparion africanum
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Dicerorhinus primaevus
Mammalia - Rodentia - Hystricidae
Hystrix sp. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Primates - Cercopithecidae
Macaca flandrini
Reptilia - Struthioniformes - Struthionidae
Struthio sp. Linnaeus 1758
see common names

Geography
Country:Algeria State/province:Oran
Coordinates: 36.7° North, 7.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.5° North, 7.0° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Miocene
Age range of interval:11.63000 - 5.33300 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:136913
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2012-12-06 09:31:41 Last modified:2012-12-05 16:31:41
Access level:the public Released:2012-12-06 09:31:41
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
43778. C. Arambourg. 1963. Continental vertebrate faunas of the Tertiary of North Africa. In F. C. Howell, F. Bourliere (eds.), African Ecology and Human Evolution 55-64 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]