Novas jazidas fossilíferas do Quaternário do Médio-Atlas de Marrocos

Translated title of the contribution: New quaternary fossil sites from the middle atlas of morocco

J. Marinheiro, O. Mateus, A. Alaoui, F. Amani, M. Nami, Cristina Ribeiro

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Abstract

The paleontological richness of Morocco has been scientifically known since at least the early 20th century. The region of the Middle Atlas, more specifically the Boulemane area, has been however only sparsely studied since the 1960s when it provided vertebrate fossils from the Middle Jurassic. In September 2013, a Moroccan-Portuguese expedition to the village of Taghrout, Boulemane, made excavations in a Pleistocene fossil site that once was a small high-altitude sedimentary basin, uncharted in previous geological maps. The excavations yielded bone material from large mammals, the most common findings are elephants ascribed to Elephas, but artiodactyls, turtles, and in-situ Acheulean tools were also collected. This represents a new and important paleontological and archeological site. In addition to the discoveries of Taghrout, the expedition also retrieved Quaternary vertebrate material from a nearby cave and found new Jurassic localities, with arcosaur bones and dinosaur footprints, in El Mers.

Translated title of the contributionNew quaternary fossil sites from the middle atlas of morocco
Original languagePortuguese
Pages (from-to)485-488
Number of pages4
JournalComunicações Geológicas
Volume101
Issue number1(SI)
Publication statusPublished - 2014
EventIX Congresso Nacional de Geologia e 2º Congresso de Geologia dos Países de Língua Portuguesa - Porto, Portugal
Duration: 18 Jul 201424 Jul 2014

Keywords

  • Middle-Atlas
  • Morocco
  • Pleistocene
  • Proboscidea

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