Plain south of Dar Kaoua (PIMUZ collection) (Carboniferous of Morocco)

Where: Morocco (31.2° N, 4.1° W: paleocoordinates 23.0° S, 1.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Asbian (340.0 - 336.0 Ma)

• Early late Visean, Entogonites assemblage.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (float)

• Repository: Paläontologisches Institut und Museum der Universität Zürich

Primary reference: C. Klug, K. de Baets, and D. Korn. 2016. Exploring the limits of morphospace: Ontogeny and ecology of late Viséan ammonoids from the Tafilalt, Morocco. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 61:1-14 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 177528: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 31.03.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida - Goniatitidae
Goniatitidae indet. Haan 1825 ammonite
Goniatites lazarus Korn et al. 2005 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Nomismoceratidae
Nomismoceras sp. Foord and Crick 1897 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Maxigoniatitidae
Beyrichoceras sp. Foord 1903 ammonite
Bollandites sp. Bisat 1952 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Entogonitidae
Entogonites bucheri n. sp. Klug et al. 2016 ammonite
Entogonites saharensis Korn et al. 2005 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Girtyoceratidae
Calygirtyoceras darkaouaense Korn et al. 1999 ammonite
 Prolecanitida - Prolecanitidae
Prolecanites sp. Mojsisovics 1882 ammonite