Ahl al Oughlam is an

archaeological site An archaeological site is a place (or group of physical sites) in which evidence of past activity is preserved (either prehistoric or recorded history, historic or contemporary), and which has been, or may be, investigated using the discipline ...

and palaeontological site located just outside

Casablanca Casablanca (, ) is the largest city in Morocco and the country's economic and business centre. Located on the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic coast of the Chaouia (Morocco), Chaouia plain in the central-western part of Morocco, the city has a populatio ...

Morocco Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It has coastlines on the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to Algeria–Morocc ...

. It was discovered in 1985 and first excavated in 1989. Ahl al Oughlam is the richest late

Neogene The Neogene ( ,) is a geologic period and system that spans 20.45 million years from the end of the Paleogene Period million years ago ( Mya) to the beginning of the present Quaternary Period million years ago. It is the second period of th ...

vertebrate Vertebrates () are animals with a vertebral column (backbone or spine), and a cranium, or skull. The vertebral column surrounds and protects the spinal cord, while the cranium protects the brain. The vertebrates make up the subphylum Vertebra ...

locality of North Africa. It has also yielded the area's first important carnivore fauna, including 23

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, 13 of which are new.

References

*https://web.archive.org/web/20070205181619/http://www.ivry.cnrs.fr/deh/geraads/aao/wintro.htm * Archaeological sites in Morocco Buildings and structures in Casablanca Pliocene paleontological sites of Africa History of Casablanca {{Morocco-struct-stub

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