Tilougguit Formation Explained

Tilougguit Formation
Type:	Geological formation
Age:	early Bathonian ~
Period:	Bathonian
Prilithology:	Marl, sandstone
Namedfor:	Tilougguite
Region:	Azilal
Coordinates:	32.1°N -6.5°W
Paleocoordinates:	28.1°N -4.5°W
Underlies:	Guettioua & El Mers Formations
Overlies:	Bin El Ouidane Formation
Extent:	High Atlas

The Tilougguit Formation, also known as the Tillouguit Formation, is an Early Bathonian geologic formation in Morocco. An indeterminate sauropod is known from the formation ^{[1] [2]}

See also

• List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations
  • List of stratigraphic units with indeterminate dinosaur fossils
• Geology of Morocco

References

Bibliography

• Book: . David B. . . Peter . . Halszka . 2004 . The Dinosauria. 2nd . Berkeley. University of California Press . 1–880 . 2019-02-21. 0-520-24209-2.

Further reading

• J. Bourcart, A. F. d. Lapparent, and H. Termier. 1942. Un nouveau gisement de Dinosauriens jurassiques au Maroc [A new locality with Jurassic dinosaurs in Morocco]. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences à Paris 214:120-122
• J. Jenny, A. Le Marrec, and M. Monbaron. 1981. Les empreintes de pas de dinosauriens dans le Jurassique moyen du Haut Atlas central (Maroc): nouveaux gisements et precisions stratigraphiques. Géobios 14(3):427-431
• S. Jouve, B. Mennecart, J. Douteau and N.-E. Jalil. 2016. The oldest durophagous teleosauroid (Crocodylomorpha, Thalattosuchia) from the lower Bathonian of central High Atlas, Morocco. Palaeontology

Notes and References

1. Weishampel et al., 2004, "Dinosaur distribution." pp.517-607
2. Allain. Ronan. Aquesbi. Najat. 2008. Anatomy and phylogenetic relationships of Tazoudasaurus naimi (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the late Early Jurassic of Morocco . Geodiversitas . 30 . 2 . 345–424.