Université de Fribourg

Guelb el Ahmar (Bathonian, Anoual Syncline, eastern Morocco): First continental flora and fauna including mammals from the Middle Jurassic of Africa

Haddoumi, Hamid ; Allain, Ronan ; Meslouh, Said ; Metais, Grégoire ; Monbaron, Michel ; Pons, Denise ; Rage, Jean-Claude ; Vullo, Romain ; Zouhri, Samir ; Gheerbrant, Emmanuel

In: Gondwana Research, 2016, vol. 29, no. 1, p. 290–319

We report the discovery in Mesozoic continental “red beds” of Anoual Syncline, Morocco, of the new Guelb el Ahmar (GEA) fossiliferous sites in the Bathonian Anoual Formation. They produced one of the richest continental biotic assemblages from the Jurassic of Gondwana, including plants, invertebrates and vertebrates. Both the sedimentological facies and the biotic assemblage indicate a...