26858 Kabylie, Algeria

[karilint]

Subject: 26858 Kabylie, Algeria
Name: Jan van der Made
Email: jvdm@mncn.csic.es

Message:
Kabylie is a region. I never heard of a site called like that.

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Arambourg, C., 2017. Continental vertebrate faunas of the Tertiary of North Africa. In African ecology and human evolution (pp. 55-64). Routledge.:

LOWER AND MIDDLE MlOCENE
For a long time, certain continental “red” formations in Algeria, subsequent to
the Eocene were attributed to the Aquitanian, but with no traces of corresponding fossils. Recently, at least a part of these “Aquitanian” deposits have been
recognized as belonging to the Upper Miocene, a much more recent era. Nevertheless, it would seem, according to certain scattered finds, that many of these
“red beds” are a little older and go back to the beginning of the Miocene. This
at least is the case for those of the Isserville region (Kabylie). Deperet (1897)
describes a Mastodon (Trilophodon) pygniaeus from there which was recently
found in the Burdigalian of Libya.