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FOSSILIA - Reports in Palaeontology

Preliminary report on the taxonomic revision of Fossil Equidae from Tizi’n Tadderht (Ouarzazate, Morocco)

Omar Cirilli¹ & Samir Zouhri²

¹ Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi di Firenze 50121, Italy; omar.cirilli@yahoo.it; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8478-1462

² Laboratoire de géosciences, faculté des Sciences, Université Hassan II-Casablanca, Morocco; samirzouhri@yahoo.fr

How to cite: Cirilli & Zouhri (2018). Preliminary report on the taxonomic revision of Fossil Equidae from Tizi’n Tadderht (Ouarzazate, Morocco). Fossilia, Volume 2018: 11-12. https://doi.org/10.32774/FosRepPal.20.1810.021112

Bullet-Points Abstract

  • The fossiliferous locality of Tizi’n Tadderht is a significant latest Miocene vertebrate fossil association in the North Africa.
  • The fossil Equidae from Tizi’n Tadderht had been preliminarly studied (Zouhri et al. 2012).
  • We prelimiarly revise the Tizi’n Tadderht Equidae association in order to have new insights on the genus Hipparion in Morocco.

Keywords: Hipparion; Tizi’n Tadderth; Sahabi; Morocco; Libya.

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Fig. 1. Hippotheriini gen. et sp. indet from Tizi’n Tadderht – MTE 12, right hemimandible, A, p2-m3 in occlusal view. B, hemimandible in labial view. Scale bar 5 cm.

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