Thomas Quarry 1 - ABCE: Pleistocene, Morocco
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Hystricidae
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Hystrix cf. cristata
Linnaeus 1758
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Gliridae
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Eliomys sp.
Wagner 1840
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Muridae
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Mus hamidae
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Praomys cf. darelbeidae
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Gerbillus grandis
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Gerbillus cf. campestris
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Meriones maximus
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Meriones maghrebianus
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Ellobius atlanticus
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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] |