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DOI	10.5252/geodiversitas2021v43a5
	Middle Eocene vertebrate fauna from the Aridal Formation, Sabkha of Gueran, southwestern Morocco
	Zouhri, Samir; Gingerich, Philip D.; Khalloufi, Bouziane; Bourdon, Estelle; Adnet, Sylvain; Jouve, Stephane; Elboudali, Najia; Amane, Ayoub; Rage, Jean-Claude; Tabuce, Rodolphe; de Lapparent de Broin, France
通讯作者	Zouhri, S (corresponding author), Hassan II Univ Casablanca, Fac Sci Ain Chock, Dept Geol, BP 5366, Casablanca 20100, Morocco.
来源期刊	GEODIVERSITAS
ISSN	1280-9659
EISSN	1638-9395
出版年	2021
卷号	43 期号:5 页码:121-150
英文摘要	In the Sahara Desert of southwestern Morocco, the Aridal Formation of Gueran is known for the world's richest Bartonian archaic whale assemblage, which includes both protocetids and basilosaurids. Gueran has also yielded another rich and diverse vertebrate fauna described in detail herein -The chondrichthyan assemblage of twelve species is quite similar to that of the Midawara Formation (Egypt). Actinopterygians include Siluriformes, Percomorpha and rostra of Cylindracanthus Leidy, 1856. Turtles are attributed to at least three indetermined species: two marine cryptodires - a cheloniid and a dermochelyid, and a possible littoral pleurodire, as found in Ad-Dakhla (Morocco) and Fayum (Egypt). The crocodylians comprise at least two longirostrine taxa, including a gavialoid that resembles the late Eocene-early Oligocene Eogavialis africanum Andrews, 1901 from Egypt. The second form is too fragmentary to be identified more precisely than Crocodyliformes indet. Two snake vertebrae belong to Pterosphenus cf. schweinfurthi Andrews, 1901. Two other incomplete snake vertebrae probably belong to Paleophiidae as well. Seabird remains belong to a gigantic soaring pseudo- toothed bird (Pelagornithidae) and constitute the earliest occurrence of the genus Pelagornis sp. Lartet, 1857. This material extends the fossil record of Pelagornis back in time by at least 10 million years. Based on their size and enamel microstructure, mammal dental fragments are attributed to the proboscidean ?Barytherium sp. The Bartonian age of the fauna, initially based on an archaeocete cetacean assemblage, is also supported by chondrichthyans. Affinities of the Gueran faunal assemblage are analyzed in comparison with those from other middle and upper Eocene deposits of North Africa and elsewhere.
英文关键词	Aridal Formation Sabkha of Gueran Moroccan Sahara Vertebrates middle Eocene
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	Bronze, Green Submitted
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000629005900001
WOS关键词	BONY-TOOTHED BIRD ; PLANKTONIC-FORAMINIFERA ; ENAMEL MICROSTRUCTURE ; PHOSPHATE DEPOSITS ; SAMLAT FORMATION ; SELACHIAN FAUNA ; AD-DAKHLA ; PELAGORNITHIDAE ; AVES ; PHYLOGENY
WOS类目	Paleontology
WOS研究方向	Paleontology
来源机构	French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/350390
作者单位	[Zouhri, Samir; Elboudali, Najia; Amane, Ayoub] Hassan II Univ Casablanca, Fac Sci Ain Chock, Dept Geol, BP 5366, Casablanca 20100, Morocco; [Gingerich, Philip D.] Univ Michigan, Res Museum Ctr, Museum Paleontol, 3600 Vars Dr, Ann Arbor, MI 48108 USA; [Khalloufi, Bouziane] Sorbonne Univ, Lab Informat & Systemat, UMR 7205, Museum Natl Hist Nat, 57 Rue Cuvier, F-75231 Paris 05, France; [Khalloufi, Bouziane] Mahasarakham Univ, Palaeontol Res & Educ Ctr, Maha Sarakham 44150, Thailand; [Bourdon, Estelle] Sorbonne Univ, Univ Antilles, Museum Natl Hist Nat, CNRS,EPHE, 57 Rue Cuvier, F-75231 Paris 05, France; [Adnet, Sylvain; Tabuce, Rodolphe] Univ Montpellier, Inst Sci Evolut Montpellier, UMR 5554, Pl E Bataillon, F-34095 Montpellier 5, France; [Jouve, Stephane] Sorbonne Univ, MNHN, Ctr Rech Paleontol, CNRS, 4 Pl Jussieu, F-75252 Paris 05, France; [Rage, Jean-Claude; de Lapparent de Broin, France] Sorbonne Univ, Ctr Rech Paleontol, MNHN, CNRS, Case Postale 38,57 Rue Cuvier, F-75231 Paris 05, France
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Zouhri, Samir,Gingerich, Philip D.,Khalloufi, Bouziane,et al. Middle Eocene vertebrate fauna from the Aridal Formation, Sabkha of Gueran, southwestern Morocco[J]. French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development,2021,43(5):121-150.
APA	Zouhri, Samir.,Gingerich, Philip D..,Khalloufi, Bouziane.,Bourdon, Estelle.,Adnet, Sylvain.,...&de Lapparent de Broin, France.(2021).Middle Eocene vertebrate fauna from the Aridal Formation, Sabkha of Gueran, southwestern Morocco.GEODIVERSITAS,43(5),121-150.
MLA	Zouhri, Samir,et al."Middle Eocene vertebrate fauna from the Aridal Formation, Sabkha of Gueran, southwestern Morocco".GEODIVERSITAS 43.5(2021):121-150.