Argana Group
The Argana Group is a Permian to Triassic geological group in the western High Atlas northeast of Agadir, Morocco.[1] Sometimes known as the Argana Formation, it contains eight geological members often divided into three formations. They include the Late Permian Ikakern Formation (members T1-T2), the Early Triassic to Carnian Timezgadiouine Formation (T3-T5), and the Late Triassic Bigoudine Formation (T6-T8).[2] Ornithischian tracks are geographically located in Marrakesh province.[2] Indeterminate theropod remains and tracks are geographically located in Marrakesh province.[2]
| Argana Group | |
|---|---|
| Stratigraphic range: Late Permian-Late Triassic | |
| Type | Group |
| Unit of | High Atlas |
| Sub-units | Irakern Formation, Timezgadiouine Formation, Bigoudine Formation |
| Lithology | |
| Primary | Sandstone |
| Other | Shale, conglomerate |
| Location | |
| Coordinates | 31.0°N 9.0°W |
| Approximate paleocoordinates | 7.4°N 5.9°W |
| Region | Marrakesh Province |
| Country |  Morocco |
  Argana Group (Morocco) | |
References
- Sebastian Voigt, Jörg W. Schneider, Hafid Saber, Abdelkbir Hminna, Abdelouahed Lagnaoui, Hendrik Klein, Andreas Brosig, Jan Fischer (2011). "Complex Tetrapod Burrows From Middle Triassic Red Beds of the Argana Basin (Western High Atlas, Morocco)". Society for Sedimentary Geology.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - Weishampel, David B; et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution (Late Triassic, Africa)." In: Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp. 528–529. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.
Further reading
- . 2016. Diapiric growth within an Early Jurassic rift basin: The Tazoult salt wall (central High Atlas, Morocco), 1–31. 35; Tectonics. doi:10.1002/2016TC004300
- . 2015. Rift opening and inversion in the Marrakech High Atlas - integrated structural and thermochronologic study, 1–157. Universitat de Barcelona.
- . 2011. Nouveaux guides geologiques et miniers du Maroc - New Geological and Mining Guidebooks of Morocco - Vol 7 - Haut Atlas Occidental, 1–106. Ministry of Energy, Mining, Water and Environment. ISSN 0374-9789
- J.-M. Dutuit. 1980. Principaux caracteres d'un genre de Dicynodonte du Trias marocain. [Principal characteristics of a dicynodont genus from the Moroccan Triassic]. Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Seances de l'Academie des Sciences, Serie D: Sciences Naturelles 290(10):655-658
- J.-M. Dutuit. 1972. Découverte d'un Dinosaure ornithischien dans le Trias supérieur de l'Atlas occidental marocain [Discovery of an ornithischian dinosaur in the Upper Triassic of the Moroccan western Atlas]. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Série D 275:2841-2844
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