Talazit: Thanetian, Morocco

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes - Procreodi - Arctocyonidae
TZT 1 - lower premolar, probably p4
see common names

Geography
Country:Morocco
Coordinates: 31.5° North, 5.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:20.5° North, 1.1° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Paleocene
Stage: Thanetian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 1
Key time interval: Thanetian
Age range of interval: 59.24 - 56 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Djbel
Stratigraphy comments: Ouarzazate basin
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:133215
Authorizer:P. Mannion Enterer:P. Mannion
Modifier:P. Mannion Research group:vertebrate
Created:2012-09-05 21:16:39 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2012-09-05 21:16:39
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

42870. J. Sudre, J.-J. Jaeger, B. Sige and M. Vianey-Liaud. 1993. Nouvelles donnes sur les Condylarthres du Thanetien et de l'Ypresien du bassin d'Ouarzazate (Maroc) [New data about the Thanetian and Ypresian Condylarthres of Ouarzazate basin (Morocco)]. Geobios 26(5):609-615 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]