Geological formation in Mali
The Tamaguélelt Formation is an Early Eocene -aged geological formation in Mali . It comprises phosphorite sediments deposited within the Trans-Saharan seaway . Many of the preserved fossils of the formation indicate that it was a marginal marine habitat. In addition to these marine fossils, fossils of freshwater and terrestrial animals are also common in the formation, due to a vast freshwater network that regularly deposited fossils into the seaway.[ 1] [ 2]
Fossil content
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Notes small text ; crossed out taxa are discredited.
Reptiles
Squamata
Crocodylomorpha
Ray-finned fish
Lobe-finned fish
Mammals
Proboscidea
Hyracoidea
Hyraxes from the Tamaguélelt Formation
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Species
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Pliohyracidae
Pliohyracidae indet.
Mollusca
Bivalvia
Cephalopoda
References
^ a b "PBDB Collection" . paleobiodb.org . Retrieved 2025-01-08 .^ a b c O'leary, Maureen A.; Bouaré, Mamadou L.; Claeson, Kerin M.; Heilbronn, Kelly; Hill, Robert V.; Mccartney, Jacob; Sessa, Jocelyn A.; Sissoko, Famory; Tapanila, Leif; Wheeler, Elisabeth; Roberts, Eric M. (2019-06-28). "Stratigraphy and Paleobiology of the Upper Cretaceous-Lower Paleogene Sediments from the Trans-Saharan Seaway in Mali" . Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History . 2019 (436): 1. doi :10.1206/0003-0090.436.1.1 . ISSN 0003-0090 . ^ a b "PBDB Collection" . paleobiodb.org . Retrieved 2025-01-09 .^ a b c d e f g h i j "PBDB Collection" . paleobiodb.org . Retrieved 2025-01-09 .^ a b c d Agassiz, Louis (1833). Recherches sur les poissons fossiles ... ^ Illiger, Johann Karl Wilhelm (1811). Caroli Illigeri ... Prodromus systematis mammalium et avium additis terminis zoographicis utriusque classis, eorumque versione germanica
