Where: Bechar, Algeria (30.0° N, 4.0° W: paleocoordinates 24.9° N, 6.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• basin-level geographic resolution
When: Early/Lower Eocene to Early/Lower Eocene (55.8 - 37.2 Ma)
• In a marly sandstone level that might be older than the ones of Locus 1 and 2. Late early Eocene to early middle Eocene.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine; sandstone and marl
Size class: mesofossils
Primary reference: J. Sudre. 1979. Nouveaux Mammifères Eocènes du Sahara Occidental. Palaeovertebrata 9(3):83-115 [E. Fara/E. Fara/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 36614: authorized by Emmanuel Fara, entered by Emmanuel Fara on 07.02.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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