Gour Lazib HGL51: Ypresian - Lutetian, Algeria

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes
Reptilia - Gruiformes
Mourer-Chauvire et al. 2011 1 specimen
Mammalia - Hyracoidea
Hyracoidea sp. Huxley 1869
n. gen. n. sp.
Mammalia - Hyracoidea - Pliohyracidae
Mammalia - Rodentia - Zegdoumyidae
Marivaux et al. 2011
HGL51-01
Mammalia - Primates - Azibiidae
Azibius trerki Sudre 1975
Mammalia
see common names

Geography
Country:Algeria State/province:Bechar region
Coordinates: 30.0° North, 4.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:20.5° North, 1.4° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Eocene
Stage: Ypresian - Lutetian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 2
Key time interval: Ypresian - Lutetian
Age range of interval: 56 - 41.03 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Glib Zegdou Member:middle
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: 1 meter above HGL51
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:lenticular sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: HGL51 est un niveau gréseux friable à boulettes d’argile [friable sandstone with clay balls]
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,microfossils
Disassociated major elements:some
Disassociated minor elements:some
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Draa Hammada; Hammada du Dra
Database number:77015
Authorizer:P. Holroyd, M. Uhen, P. Mannion Enterer:P. Holroyd, P. Mannion, M. Uhen
Modifier:P. Mannion Research group:vertebrate
Created:2007-12-16 14:51:51 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2007-12-16 14:51:51
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
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]

Secondary references:

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]
38604 C. Mourer-Chauvire, R. Tabuce, M. Mahboubi, M. Adaci, and M. Bensalah. 2011. A Phororhacoid bird from the Eocene of Africa. Naturwissenschaften 98:815-823 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]