Tizi N'Tadderht
Basic information
Sample name: Tizi N'Tadderht
Reference: S. Zouhri, D. Geraads, S. El Boughabi, and A. El Harfi. 2012. Discovery of an Upper Miocene Vertebrate fauna near Tizi N'Tadderht, Skoura, Ouarzazate Basin (Central High Atlas, Morocco). Comptes Rendus Palevol 11:455-461 [ER 4007]
Geography
Country: Morocco
Coordinate: 31.09° N, -6.46° W
Coordinate basis: estimated from map
Formation: Aït Kandoula
Time interval: Late Miocene
Max Ma: 8.7
Min Ma: 5.09
Age basis: zone
Geography comments: from "between the city of Skoura and Imassine village, near Tizi N'Tadderht" (coordinate estimated from map in Fig. 1)
Turolian based on biochronology, and not assigned to a Mein zone; the Turolian spans MN11 to MN13 or 8.7 to 5.09 Ma according to Ezquerro et al. (2022)
Turolian based on biochronology, and not assigned to a Mein zone; the Turolian spans MN11 to MN13 or 8.7 to 5.09 Ma according to Ezquerro et al. (2022)
Environment
Lithology: conglomerate
Taphonomic context: fluvial deposit
Habitat comments: Neogene sediments in the basin constitute "a megasequence of lacustrine and palustrine sediments deposited in the context of an alluvial plain, and dotted with local sabkhas" and the fossils are from the upper "conglomerate" member of the formation, which consists of "alluvial deposits: sandstone and especially conglomerates"
Methods
Life forms: ungulates,turtles,other reptiles
Sample size: 34 specimens
Years: 2010
Sampling comments: "The material was collected by amateur collectors" but "Some new specimens have been collected by the authors in December 2010"
"One part of the material (about 20 specimens) is kept in a private museum in Erfoud (Morocco), while the other part (about 126 specimens) is housed at the Faculty of Sciences Ain Chock of Casablanca (FSAC)"
cf. Struthio sp. eggshell fragments are also present
"One part of the material (about 20 specimens) is kept in a private museum in Erfoud (Morocco), while the other part (about 126 specimens) is housed at the Faculty of Sciences Ain Chock of Casablanca (FSAC)"
cf. Struthio sp. eggshell fragments are also present
Metadata
Sample number: 4420
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2024-11-02 23:43:22
Modified: 2024-11-02 23:43:22
Abundance distribution
11 species
7 singletons
total count 34
geometric series index: 36.9
Fisher's α: 5.642
geometric series k: 0.8027
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8093
Shannon's H: 1.9500
Good's u: 0.7941
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Register
| Centrochelys sp. | 1 | |
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| Crocodylus cf. niloticus | 1 | |
| Cremohipparion aff. periafricanum | 6 | |
| Hippotherium cf. primigenium | 9 | |
| minimum count: more than one individual may be represented by a set of "jugal teeth" and "some" (at least two) phalanges | ||
| Hippotheriini indet. | 9 | |
| minimum count: there are "a few phalanges" (at least three) | ||
| Ceratotherium sp. | 1 | |
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| Chilotherium sp. | 1 | |
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| Tetralophodon sp. | 1 | |
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| Giraffidae indet. | 3 | |
| Prostrepsiceros sp. | 1 | |
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| Bovidae indet. | 1 | |
| medium-sized skull | ||