Gour Lazib HGL90: Early Eocene - Middle Eocene, Algeria
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Hyracoidea
- Pliohyracidae
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Megalohyrax gevini n. sp.
Sudre 1979
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Sudre 1979 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
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Microhyrax lavocati n. gen., n. sp.
Sudre 1979
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Sudre 1979 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
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Mammalia
- Lipotyphla
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Lipotyphla sp.
Haeckel 1866
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Adaci et al. 2007 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Zegdoumyidae
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| Adaci et al. 2007 | ||||||||||
| Marivaux et al. 2011 | ||||||||||
| HGL90-01 | ||||||||||
| Adaci et al. 2007 | ||||||||||
| Marivaux et al. 2011 | ||||||||||
| HGL90-03 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
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Helioseus insolitus n. gen., n. sp.
Sudre 1979
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Sudre 1979 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Algeria | State/province: | Bechar |
| Coordinates: | 30.0° North, 4.0° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 20.9° North, 1.2° East (Wright 2013) | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| Stage: | Ypresian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 2 - Cenozoic 2-3 |
| Key time interval: | Early Eocene - Middle Eocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 56 - 37.71 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Glib Zegdou | Member: | middle | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: late early to early middle Eocene. This level could be slightly older than the one of Gour Lazib Locus 1. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: pink sandstone | |
| Environment: | fluvial-lacustrine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Locus 2 of Sudre (1979); Hammada du Dra | ||
| Database number: | 36613 | ||
| Authorizer: | E. Fara, P. Mannion | Enterer: | E. Fara, P. Mannion |
| Modifier: | P. Mannion | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2004-02-07 07:04:10 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | database members | Released: | 2004-05-07 07:04:10 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 13342. | P. Gevin, R. Lavocat, N. Mongereau and J. Sudre. 1975. Decouverte de mammiferes dans la moitie inferieure de l'Eocene continental du Nord-Ouest du Sahara. Comptes rendus de l'Academie des Sciences de Paris, Serie D 280:967-968 [E. Fara/E. Fara/E. Fara] |
Secondary references:
| 26064 | M. Adaci, R. Tabuce, F. Mebrouk, M. Bensalah, P.-H. Fabre, L. Hautier, J.-J. Jaeger, V. Lazzari, M. Mahboubi, L. Marivaux, O. Otero, S. Peigné, and H. Tong. 2007. Nouveaux sites à vertébrés paléogènes dans la région des Gour Lazib (Sahara nord-occidental, Algérie). Comptes Rendus Palevol 6:535-544 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd] | |
| 45283 | L. Marivaux, M. Adaci, M. Bensalah, H. G. Rodrigues, L. Hautier, M. Mahboubi, F. Mebrouk, R. Tabuce, and M. Vianey-Liaud. 2011. Zegdoumyidae (Rodentia, Mammalia), stem anomaluroid rodents from the Early to Middle Eocene of Algeria (Gour Lazib, Western Sahara): new dental evidence. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 9(4):563-588 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Mannion] | |
| 9819 | 5% 32800 | J. Sudre. 1979. Nouveaux Mammifères Eocènes du Sahara Occidental. Palaeovertebrata 9(3):83-115 [E. Fara/E. Fara/P. Mannion] |