Locality XI, track level (Argana Basin) (Triassic of Morocco)

Also known as Imi N'Tanoute, Imin tanoute, Imin Tanout, Imi n'Tanout, Gisement XI, Tizi n'MaĆ¢chou, Tizi N'Machou

Where: Marrakech-Safi, Morocco (31.1° N, 9.0° W: paleocoordinates 7.4° N, 5.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Irohalene Member (Timezgadiouine Formation), Carnian (237.0 - 228.0 Ma)

• The tridactyl prints are 20 - 30 meters "higher in the series and at the same place" [Deposit XI, Levels 1-3, also described in this paper].

•"base of t5 level" in Biron & Dutuit 1981.

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

• river or marsh environment
• continental

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by J.-M. Dutuit in 1962

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• See J.-M. Dutuit, Mem. Mus nat. Hist. nat., 36C, 1976, 253 p. may give more information on the geology.

Primary reference: J.-M. Dutuit. 1980. Principaux caracteres d'un genre de Dicynodonte du Trias marocain. [Principal characteristics of a dicynodont genus from the Moroccan Triassic]. Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Seances de l'Academie des Sciences, Serie D: Sciences Naturelles 290(10):655-658 [J. Alroy/R. Whatley/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 34701: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Robin Whatley on 16.09.2003, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• footprints only
unclassified
  -
Reptilia
 Squamata -
Rhynchosauroides sp.1 Maidwell 1911 squamates
 Pseudosuchia - Chirotheriidae
Pentichnus largus n. gen. n. sp.1, Quadridigitus dubius n. gen. n. sp.1
Pentichnus largus n. gen. n. sp.1 Biron and Dutuit 1981 archosaur
ARG. 1012, 1018
Quadridigitus dubius n. gen. n. sp.1 Biron and Dutuit 1981 archosaur
ARG. 1021
 Ornithischia - Moyenisauropodidae
Anomoepus moghrebensis n. sp.1 Biron and Dutuit 1981 ornithopod
ARG. 1005, 1020
 Theropoda - Grallatoridae
Tridactylus machouensis n. gen. n. sp.1
Tridactylus machouensis n. gen. n. sp.1 Biron and Dutuit 1981 theropod
"tridactyl impressions"; ARG. 1001, 1011, 1019
Amphibia
 Amphibia -
Amphibia indet.2 tetrapod
 Temnospondyli -
Palaeosauropus triasicus n. sp.1 Biron and Dutuit 1981 tetrapod
ARG. 1008