Les lagomorphes du Pléistocène supérieur de la grotte d’El Harhoura 1 (Témara, Maroc)

Aouraghe, Hassan; Bougariane, Bouchra; Abbassi, Mohamed

doi:10.4000/quaternaire.6221

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“…(López-Martínez 1989De Marfà and Mein 2007;De Marfà 2009;Flynn et al 2013;Pelletier et al 2015;Pelletier 2018). This genus is apparently originated in the Iberian Peninsula and extended to Northwest Africa during the Pleistocene (López-Martínez 2008;De Marfà 2009;Aouraghe et al 2012), hence the comparisons developed here.…”

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confidence: 89%

“…In any case, this genus is absent from the European and North African record before the end of early Pleistocene, ca. 1.2 Ma (Aouraghe et al 2012;Pelletier et al 2015;Pelletier 2018).…”

Section: Comparisonsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Also, a recent study provided an early Pleistocene record of the southern African genus Pronolagus in Angola and Namibia (Sen and Pickford 2022). Other leporids are also known, such as Trischizolagus raynali from the middle Pleistocene of Morocco, and Lepus and Oryctolagus from late Pleistocene cave deposits in Northwest Africa (Geraads 1994;Aouraghe et al 2012). The last article also synthetized knowledge on the fossil lagomorphs of the Moghreb, showing how incomplete and rare is the documentation.…”

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Lagomorpha (Mammalia) from the Pliocene-Pleistocene locality of Ahl al Oughlam, Morocco

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Geraads

2023

Palaeobio Palaeoenv

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The exceptionally rich vertebrate locality of Ahl al Oughlam near Casablanca (Morocco) yielded abundant remains of Lagomorpha, composed of cranial and postcranial bones and many isolated teeth. They represent a new species of Prolagidae, Prolagus migrans n. sp., and two new Leporidae, Trischizolagus meridionalis n. sp. and Afrolagus pomeli n. g., n. sp. The main characters of the new Prolagus species are the large and anteriorly curved mesial hyperloph on P2, the lack of crochet, and the protoconulid isolated in most p3s.Trischizolagus meridionalis n. sp. is smaller than the common European species T. dumitrescuae, and differs in having in most p3 a massive outlined trigonid, mesofossetid and paraflexid. The second leporid Afrolagus pomeli n. g., n. sp. displays a unique p3 pattern not seen in the Old World leporids with the hypoflexid penetrating more than two thirds of the total width; it is probably formed by the fusion of hypoflexid and mesofosssetid, but leaves a wide lingual connection between the trigonid and talonid. Its upper molariform teeth have strongly wrinkled enamel along the edges of the hypoflexus. Despite these differences, it also shares several dental features with both the African genus Serengetilagus and the European genus Oryctolagus, to which it is compared. Prolagus and Trichizolagus are both well-known European genera. Their occurrence in the Plio-Pleistocene of Morocco is certainly due to a dispersal event thanks to terrestrial connection between the Iberian Peninsula and the Moghreb. In the light of recent faunal, biogeographic and chronological data, the beginning of mammalian exchanges in both directions dates from about 6.2 Ma. The locality of Ahl al Oughlam, although much younger, with an age estimated to 3.0-2.5 Ma, retains taxa resulting from this dispersal event, including the lagomorphs described here.

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confidence: 89%

“…In any case, this genus is absent from the European and North African record before the end of early Pleistocene, ca. 1.2 Ma (Aouraghe et al 2012;Pelletier et al 2015;Pelletier 2018).…”

Section: Comparisonsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%

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Lagomorpha (Mammalia) from the Pliocene-Pleistocene locality of Ahl al Oughlam, Morocco

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Geraads

2023

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Context of modern human occupations in North Africa: Contribution of the Témara caves data

Stoetzel

Campmas

Michel

et al. 2014

Quaternary International

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The prehistoric site of Oued Beht, Khémisset, Morocco: an interpretative report on 2021–2022 fieldwork and associated research

Broodbank,

Lucarini,

Bokbot

et al. 2024

Libyan Stud

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This report presents the first in-depth publication of preliminary data from Oued Beht, northwest Morocco, a remarkable site initially identified in the 1930s and now newly investigated. It is based on fieldwork undertaken in 2021–2022 (photogrammetry, survey and excavation), and associated study and analyses. Oued Beht is shown to be a large site of ca. 9–10 hectares in main extent, with many deep pits and convincing evidence for a full package of domesticated crops and animals. Its material culture is abundant and dense, comprising ceramics (including a local painted tradition hitherto barely attested in northwest Africa but comparable to finds in Iberia), numerous polished stone axes, grinding stones and other macrolithics, and a chipped-stone industry. Radiocarbon dates so far cluster at ca. 3400–2900 BC, but there are also indications of earlier and later prehistoric activity. What social activities Oued Beht reflects remains open to interpretation, but it emerges as a phenomenon of strong comparative interest for understanding the wider dynamics of north Africa and the Mediterranean during the fourth and third millennia BC.

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Les lagomorphes du Pléistocène supérieur de la grotte d’El Harhoura 1 (Témara, Maroc)

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Lagomorpha (Mammalia) from the Pliocene-Pleistocene locality of Ahl al Oughlam, Morocco

Lagomorpha (Mammalia) from the Pliocene-Pleistocene locality of Ahl al Oughlam, Morocco

Context of modern human occupations in North Africa: Contribution of the Témara caves data

The prehistoric site of Oued Beht, Khémisset, Morocco: an interpretative report on 2021–2022 fieldwork and associated research

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