Middle Eocene vertebrate fauna from the Aridal Formation, Sabkha of Gueran, southwestern Morocco
Author
Zouhri, Samir
Author
Gingerich, Philip D.
Author
Khalloufi, Bouziane
Author
Bourdon, Estelle
Author
Adnet, Sylvain
Author
Jouve, Stéphane
Author
Elboudali, Najia
Author
Amane, Ayoub
Author
Rage, Jean-Claude
Author
Tabuce, Rodolphe
text
Geodiversitas
2021
2021-03-11
43
5
121
150
journal article
7746
10.5252/geodiversitas2021v43a5
e42658a2-0e15-4e90-9bc5-0d00cbcbd781
1638-9395
4605963
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:697FC553-E37B-4EF9-97A4-950E4DEE246C
Abdounia
sp.
MATERIAL
A dozen isolated teeth, figured material includes
FSAC
Bouj-344
.
DESCRIPTION AND REMARKS
Some rare medium-sized shark teeth (
Fig. 4E, F
) with low or incipient cusplets correspond to a large unnamed
Abdounia
species previously observed in the middle to late Eocene of
Egypt
(included in
C. frequens
in
Case & Cappetta 1990
: pl.7, fig. 147;
Underwood
et al.
2011
: fig. 2F). Occasional in MI, this unnamed species becomes common in GE A-C and younger series (
Underwood
et al.
2011
).