Oulad Hamida 1 - Rhino Cave: Middle Pleistocene, Morocco

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Vulpes cf. rueppelli Schinz 1825
Geraads 2011
Reptilia
Aves indet. Linnaeus 1758
Raynal et al. 1993
several species (names not given)
Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae
Testudo sp. Linnaeus 1758
Raynal et al. 1993
Reptilia
Squamata indet. (Oppel 1811)
Raynal et al. 1993
Mammalia - Chiroptera
Chiroptera indet. Blumenbach 1779
Mammalia - Carnivora - Hyaenidae
Hyaena hyaena (Linnaeus 1758)
Crocuta crocuta (Erxleben 1777)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Panthera leo (Linnaeus 1758)
Felis cf. sylvestris
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
Ursus bibersoni
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Canis aff. adustus Sundevall 1847
recombined as Schaeffia adusta
Lycaon magnus Ewer and Singer 1956
Geraads 2011
Lupulella mohibi n. sp. Geraads 2011
Geraads 2011
GDR-7966 (holotype), mostly complete cranium
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus cf. mauritanicus
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Ceratotherium simum (Burchell 1821)
Mammalia - Camelidae
Camelus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Suidae
Phacochoerus cf. africanus (Gmelin 1788)
Mammalia - Bovidae
Connochaetes sp. (Lichtenstein 1812)
Parmularius cf. angusticornis (Schwarz 1937)
? Damaliscus sp. Sclater and Thomas 1894
? Oryx sp. de Blainville 1816
Gazella cf. atlantica Bourguignat 1870
Pelorovis ? antiquus (Duvernoy 1851)
Mammalia - Soricidae
Crocidura darelbeidae
Crocidura cf. tarfayaensis
Mammalia - Erinaceidae
Erinaceidae indet. Fischer von Waldheim 1817
Mammalia - Rodentia - Muridae
Gerbillus grandis
Gerbillus grandis minor
Gerbillus cf. campestris
Meriones maximus
Meriones maghrebianus
Meriones maghrebianus hamidae
Mus hamidae
Praomys darelbeidae
Paraethomys tighennifae
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Ellobius atlanticus
Mammalia - Rodentia - Hystricidae
Hystrix cf. cristata Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Rodentia - Gliridae
Eliomys darelbeidae
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Serengetilagus raynali
Lepus cf. capensis Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Primates - Cercopithecidae
Theropithecus cf. oswaldi (Andrews 1916)
see common names

Geography
Country:Morocco County:Casablanca
Coordinates: 33.6° North, 7.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.6° North, 7.6° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Middle Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.78100 - 0.12600 m.y. ago
Age estimate:0.45 ± 0.05 Ma (unknown)
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Middle Pleistocene, approx 0.4Ma. there are 13 different layers within the cave filling, only one of which contains fauna (CGDR or continental 'Grotte des Rhinocéros').
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:cave
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:salvage,field collection
Reason for describing collection:archaeological analysis
Collection method comments: Discovered in 1991 in a working quarry. Stone tool assemblage contains several thousand artefacts.
Taxonomic list comments:Abundant rhinoceros remains. Arid environment rodents and large grazing mammals suggest an open, dry landscape.
Metadata
Also known as:OH1-GDR, Grotte des Rhinocéros
Database number:34330
Authorizer:A. Turner, B. Allen Enterer:H. O'Regan, B. Allen
Modifier:B. Allen Research group:PACED
Created:2003-08-27 06:07:24 Last modified:2023-07-28 06:37:55
Access level:the public Released:2003-08-27 06:07:24
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

9013.PACED D. Geraads. 2002. Plio-Pleistocene mammalian biostratigraphy of Atlantic Morocco. Quaternaire 13(1):43-53 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]

Secondary references:

85455 D. Geraads. 2011. A revision of the fossil Canidae (Mammalia of north-western Africa. Palaeontology 54(2):429-446 [B. Allen/B. Allen]
9022PACED J.P. Raynal, D. Geraads, L. Magoga, A. El Hajraoui, J.P. Texier, D. Lefevre, and F.Z. Sbihi-Alaoui. 1993. La Grotte des Rhinoceros (Carriere Oulad Hamida 1, anciennement Thomas III, Casablanca), nouveau site acheuleen du Maroc atlantique. Comptes Rendues de l'Academie des Sciences Paris, Series II 316:1477-1483 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]
9023PACED E. J. Rhodes, J. P. Raynal, D. Geraads and F. Z. Sbihi-Alaoui. 1994. Premieres dates RPE pour l'Acheuleen du Maroc atlantique (Grotte des Rhinoceros, Casablanca). Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences, Paris, Serie II 319:1109-1115 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]