Thomas Quarry 1 - ABCE: Pleistocene, Morocco

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Hystricidae
Hystrix cf. cristata Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Rodentia - Gliridae
Eliomys sp. Wagner 1840
Mammalia - Rodentia - Muridae
Mus hamidae
Praomys cf. darelbeidae
Gerbillus grandis
Gerbillus cf. campestris
Meriones maximus
Meriones maghrebianus
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Ellobius atlanticus
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:Pleistocene
Age range of interval:2.58800 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: several thin infillings named A, B, C and E, which are probably all from the same stratigraphic unit and therefore they have been treated as a single fauna. Probably slightly younger than Rhino Cave (approx 0.4Ma).
Lithology and environment
Environment:fissure fill
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:salvage,field collection
Reason for describing collection:archaeological analysis
Collection method comments: Sites exposed by earthworks in 1993.
Taxonomic list comments:only microfauna found at this site.
Metadata
Database number:34331
Authorizer:A. Turner Enterer:H. O'Regan
Modifier:H. O'Regan Research group:PACED
Created:2003-08-27 07:26:38 Last modified:2003-08-27 10:26:38
Access level:the public Released:2003-08-27 07:26:38
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]