Tamaguélelt Formation
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.
Fossil content
Color key
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Notes Uncertain or tentative taxa are in small text; |
Reptiles
Squamata
| Squamates from the Tamaguélelt Formation | |||||
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| Genus | Species | Material | Notes | Member | Images |
| Palaeophis | P. colossaeus | Vertebrae | A giant palaeophiid marine snake | 
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| Serpentes | Serpentes indet. | ||||
Crocodylomorpha
| Crocodylomorphs from the Tamaguélelt Formation | |||||
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| Genus | Species | Material | Notes | Member | Images |
| Tilemsisuchus | T. lavocati | A dyrosaurid crocodylomorph | |||
| Phosphatosaurus | P. gavialoides | A dyrosaurid crocodylomorph. | |||
Ray-finned fish
| Ray-finned fish from the Tamaguélelt Formation | |||||
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| Genus | Species | Material | Notes | Member | Images |
| Brychaetus | B. sp. | A marine bonytongue. | 
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| Claroteidae | Claroteidae indet. | A freshwater claroteid catfish. | |||
| Cylindracanthus | C. sp. | A marine actinopterygian of uncertain affinities. | 
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| Maliamia | M. gigas | A large marine vidalamiine amiid. | |||
| Nigerium | N. tamaguelense | A freshwater claroteid catfish. | |||
| Pycnodus | P. zeaformis | A marine pycnodont. | 
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| P. maliensis | |||||
| P. sp | |||||
| Stratodus | S. apicalis | A giant marine dercetid aulopiform. | 
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Lobe-finned fish
| Lungfish from the Tamaguélelt Formation | |||||
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| Genus | Species | Material | Notes | Member | Images |
| Lavocatodus | L. giganteus | A freshwater lavocatodid lungfish | |||
| Protopterus | P. elongus | A freshwater protopterid lungfish | 
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Mammals
Proboscidea
| Proboscideans from the Tamaguélelt Formation | |||||
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| Genus | Species | Material | Notes | Member | Images |
| Probscidea | Probscidea indet | ||||
| Numidotheriidae | Numidotheriidae indet. | ||||
| Plesielephantiformes | Plesielephantiformes indet. | ||||
Hyracoidea
| Hyraxes from the Tamaguélelt Formation | |||||
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| Genus | Species | Material | Notes | Member | Images |
| Pliohyracidae | Pliohyracidae indet. | ||||
Mollusca
Bivalvia
| Bivalves from the Tamaguélelt Formation | |||||
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| Genus | Species | Material | Notes | Member | Images |
| Pholadidae | Pholadidae indet. | ||||
| Gastrochaenolites | G. sp. | ||||
Cephalopoda
| Cephalopods from the Tamaguélelt Formation | |||||
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| Genus | Species | Material | Notes | Member | Images |
| Cimomia | C. ogbei | A hercoglossid nautiloid. |
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References
- ^ "PBDB Collection". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2025-01-08.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "PBDB Collection". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2025-01-09.
- ^ "PBDB Collection". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2025-01-09.
- ^ Agassiz, Louis (1833). Recherches sur les poissons fossiles ... Neuchatel: Petitpierre.
- ^ Illiger, Johann Karl Wilhelm (1811). Caroli Illigeri ... Prodromus systematis mammalium et avium additis terminis zoographicis utriusque classis, eorumque versione germanica. Berolini [Berlin]: sumptibus C. Salfeld.