Ouled Abdoun Basin Recette 4, Ypresian: Ypresian, Morocco
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Odontopterygiformes
- Pelagornithidae
|
||||||||||
Dasornis tolapica
|
Bourdon et al. 2010 | |||||||||
Dasornis emuinus
(Bowerbank 1854)
|
Bourdon et al. 2010 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
|
||||||||||
Argillochelys africana n. sp.
Tong and Hirayama 2008
|
Tong and Hirayama 2008 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
purchased specimen; exact locality unclear | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Cheloniidae
|
||||||||||
Puppigerus camperi
(Gray 1831)
|
Tong et al. 2012 | |||||||||
MAE 2005.1.1 a nearly complete skull | ||||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Torpediniformes
- Narcinidae
|
||||||||||
Narcine sp.
Henle 1834
|
||||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Myliobatiformes
- Myliobatidae
|
||||||||||
Lophobatis phosphaticus n. gen., n. sp.
Cappetta 1986
|
Cappetta 1986 | |||||||||
Myliobatis monnieri n. sp.
Cappetta 1986
|
Cappetta 1986 | |||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Morocco |
Coordinates: | 34.3° North, 5.9° West (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 28.3° North, 7.3° West |
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
Geographic resolution: | hand sample |
Time
Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
Stage: | Ypresian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 2 |
Key time interval: | Ypresian | ||
Age range of interval: | 56.00000 - 47.80000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: upper Ypresian |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | phosphorite |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Museum repositories: | MNHN |
Metadata
Database number: | 91363 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen, D. Nicholson | Enterer: | M. Uhen, D. Nicholson |
Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2009-09-16 11:25:42 | Last modified: | 2016-01-06 14:52:11 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2009-09-16 11:25:42 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
30740. | H. Cappetta. 1988. Les Torpediniformes (Neoselachii, Batomorphii) des phosphates du Maroc; observations sur la denture des genres actuels. The Torpedini. Tertiary Research 10(1):21-52 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
40151 | E. Bourdon, M. Amaghzaz, and B. Bouya. 2010. Pseudotoothed birds (Aves, Odontopterygiformes) from the early Tertiary of Morocco. American Museum Novitates 3704:1-71 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
72289 | H. Cappetta. 1986. Myliobatide nouveaux (Neoselachii, Batomorphii) de l'Ypreésian des Ouled Abdoun, Maroc. Geologica et Palaeontologica 20:185-207 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
57550 | H. Tong and R. Hirayama. 2008. A new species of Argillochelys (Testudines: Cryptodira: Cheloniidae) from the Ouled Abdoun phosphate basin, Morocco. Bulletin of the Geological Society of France 179(6):623-630 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
54190 | H. Tong, R. Hirayama, and J. Tabouelle. 2012. Puppigerus camperi (Testudines: Cryptodira: Cheloniidae) from the Ypresian (Early Eocene) of Ouled Abdoun basin, Morocco. 183(6):635-640 [D. Nicholson/D. Nicholson] |