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Fig. 3
Synthetic
lithostratigraphic section in the
Ganntour basin (Noubhani and
Cappetta
1997
)
brought to the forefront, for the OCP Group, the great sci-
enti
described 10 years earlier (Mahboubi et al.
1984
,
1986
; see
also Noubhani et al.
2008
for the biometrical study of the
quite important population),
c and economic importance of the palaeontological
contents of the phosphates deposits. Indeed, this maxillary
bone was bought in a French fossil market, underscoring the
close relationship between the commercial fossil trade, in
Morocco, and important scienti
these fossils still
represent
the oldest representatives of the order Proboscidea.
Other mammalian fossils (about 10 species) have also
been recovered representing individuals that belong to the
orders of hyaenodontids, hyracoids and condylarths
(Gheerbrant et al.
2002
,
2006
). They may be among the
c discoveries. Along with
Numidotherium koholense Jaeger 1986 (Fig.
6
), another
proboscidean species from the middle Eocene of Algeria
