Argana Group

Argana Group
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°00′N9°00′W / 31.0°N 9.0°W
Approximate paleocoordinates	7°24′N5°54′W / 7.4°N 5.9°W
Region	Marrakesh Province
Country	Morocco
	Argana Group (Morocco)

Last updated June 05, 2025

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]

References

↑ Voigt, S.; Schneider, J. W.; Saber, H.; Hminna, A.; Lagnaoui, A.; Klein, H.; Brosig, A.; Fischer, J. (2011). "Complex Tetrapod Burrows From Middle Triassic Red Beds of the Argana Basin (Western High Atlas, Morocco)" . PALAIOS. 26 (9). Society for Sedimentary Geology: 555–566. Bibcode:2011Palai..26..555V. doi:10.2110/palo.2011.p11-014r. S2CID 129863137.
1 2 3 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.

Martín Martín, J.D (2016), "Diapiric growth within an Early Jurassic rift basin: The Tazoult salt wall (central High Atlas, Morocco)", Tectonics , 35 (1): 1–31, Bibcode:2017Tecto..36....2M, doi:10.1002/2016TC004300, hdl: 10261/142474 doi : 10.1002/2016TC004300
Domènech Verdaguer, Mireia (2015), Rift opening and inversion in the Marrakech High Atlas - integrated structural and thermochronologic study, Universitat de Barcelona, pp. 1–157
Medina, Fida (2011), Nouveaux guides geologiques et miniers du Maroc - New Geological and Mining Guidebooks of Morocco - Vol 7 - Haut Atlas Occidental, Ministry of Energy, Mining, Water and Environment, pp. 1–106, ISSN 0374-9789
J.-M. Dutuit. 1980. Principaux characteres 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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[1] Voigt, S.; Schneider, J. W.; Saber, H.; Hminna, A.; Lagnaoui, A.; Klein, H.; Brosig, A.; Fischer, J. (2011). "Complex Tetrapod Burrows From Middle Triassic Red Beds of the Argana Basin (Western High Atlas, Morocco)" . PALAIOS. 26 (9). Society for Sedimentary Geology: 555–566. Bibcode:2011Palai..26..555V. doi:10.2110/palo.2011.p11-014r. S2CID 129863137.

[triassicdistribution-2] 1 2 3 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.

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