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Se describen dos huellas crocodyliformes de “les couches rouges” del Jurásico Medio del Alto Atlas de las que se destaca su importancia por su escasez en el registro mundial. Las huellas no son comparables con los icnogéneros descritos hasta ahora. La huella del pie es incompleta. Suponemos que es un crocodiliforme continental porque el ambiente sedimentario en el que están las icnitas es fluvial. Finalmente se indica, aunque con unos márgenes de inseguridad amplios, el orden de tamaño que suponemos para el autor de las pisadas Two Crocodyliform footprints from "les couches rouges" of the Middle Jurassic of the High Atlas are described.We highlight it for its scarcity in the global record. Footprints cannot be compared with other known ichnogenus. The pes print is incomplete.We assume that it is a continental crocodyliform because the footprints are in fluvial deposits. Finally there follows, although with wide margins of uncertainty, the size that we assume for the trackmake

Se describen dos huellas crocodyliformes de “les couches rouges” del Jurásico Medio del Alto Atlas de las que se destaca su importancia por su escasez en el registro mundial. Las huellas no son comparables con los icnogéneros descritos hasta ahora. La huella del pie es incompleta. Suponemos que es un crocodiliforme continental porque el ambiente sedimentario en el que están las icnitas es fluvial. Finalmente se indica, aunque con unos márgenes de inseguridad amplios, el orden de tamaño que suponemos para el autor de las pisadas, Two Crocodyliform footprints from "les couches rouges" of the Middle Jurassic of the High Atlas are described.We highlight it for its scarcity in the global record. Footprints cannot be compared with other known ichnogenus. The pes print is incomplete.We assume that it is a continental crocodyliform because the footprints are in fluvial deposits. Finally there follows, although with wide margins of uncertainty, the size that we assume for the trackmake

The Iouaridène syncline is a is famous palaeontological site among the ichnologists for several reasons: i) the time of the site is known - the first footprint paper were published in 1937; ii) the discovery of the sauropod trackway Breviparopus, Dutuit and Ouazzou, 1980 used as narrow gauge morphotipe by Farlow (1992); iii) the succesive discussions about the age of the “red beds” where the ichnites were found, and in consequence, the variations in the footprint age attributions; and iv) the discussion about the swimmer dinosaurs in manus-only sauropod trackways. The exploration on the area and the bibliographical review have allowed to verify many of the former suppositions and to adjust the age of the mentioned sauropod trackway, fact of great importancy in the dinosaur palaeoichnology

The Iouaridène syncline is a is famous palaeontological site among the ichnologists for several reasons: i) the time of the site is known - the first footprint paper were published in 1937; ii) the discovery of the sauropod trackway Breviparopus, Dutuit and Ouazzou, 1980 used as narrow gauge morphotipe by Farlow (1992); iii) the succesive discussions about the age of the “red beds” where the ichnites were found, and in consequence, the variations in the footprint age attributions; and iv) the discussion about the swimmer dinosaurs in manus-only sauropod trackways. The exploration on the area and the bibliographical review have allowed to verify many of the former suppositions and to adjust the age of the mentioned sauropod trackway, fact of great importancy in the dinosaur palaeoichnology

The first found tracks of dinosaur in the North of the Goulmima-Tinerhir line (Inner Haut Atlas Central, Morocco) are described. They are located in the Arhbalou Formation and come from isolated and grouped prints mainly of theropod dinosaur. They have importance by the enlargement of the geographical area with dinosaur paleoichnological sites and by they constitute the first dated Carixian dinosaur footprints founds in Morocco.

On the nor th of the Goulmima-Tinerhir line three new dinosaur ichnological sites were discovered. The new ichnites and sites (21 and 3) are added to the 23 footprints and 4 outcrops known until now. All sites are in the Aghbalou Formation (Carixian) being those described in this work, older that previously known. Eubrontes, other not identified theropod and possibly sauropod ichnites are described in the new localities. The litology and the direct and indirect structures accompanying of the footsteps also suppose a contribution for the extension of variation both in the sedimentary materials and morphologic ichnological types in the region

The first found tracks of dinosaur in the North of the Goulmima-Tinerhir line (Inner Haut Atlas Central, Morocco) are described. They are located in the Arhbalou Formation and come from isolated and grouped prints mainly of theropod dinosaur. They have importance by the enlargement of the geographical area with dinosaur paleoichnological sites and by they constitute the first dated Carixian dinosaur footprints founds in Morocco.

On the nor th of the Goulmima-Tinerhir line three new dinosaur ichnological sites were discovered. The new ichnites and sites (21 and 3) are added to the 23 footprints and 4 outcrops known until now. All sites are in the Aghbalou Formation (Carixian) being those described in this work, older that previously known. Eubrontes, other not identified theropod and possibly sauropod ichnites are described in the new localities. The litology and the direct and indirect structures accompanying of the footsteps also suppose a contribution for the extension of variation both in the sedimentary materials and morphologic ichnological types in the region

Milhi Abdellah, Ettaki Mohammed, Chellaï El Hassane, Hadri Majid. Les formations lithostratigraphiques jurassiques du Haut Atlas central (Maroc) : corrélations et reconstitutions paléogéographiques. In: Documents des Laboratoires de Géologie, Lyon, n°156, 2002. STRATI 2002. 3ème congrès français de stratigraphie. Lyon, 8-10 juillet 2002. p. 163.