Amouslek II (Cambrian of Morocco)

Where: Morocco (30.2° N, 9.0° W: paleocoordinates 63.8° S, 113.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Daguinaspis trilobite zone, Amouslek Formation, Atdabanian (521.0 - 516.0 Ma)

• Issendalian

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

• archaeocyath-microbial bioherm intercalated in thick beds of green shales

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: F. Debrenne. 1990. Archaeocyatha du Maroc : Essai de synthèse. Géologie Méditerranéenne 17(3-4):213-227 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 232981: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 09.01.2024

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Archaeocyatha
 Ajacicyathida - Ethmocyathidae
Afiacyathus compositus archaeocyath sponge
Afiacyathus tabulatus archaeocyath sponge
Afiacyathus utriculoporus archaeocyath sponge
Afiacyathus pruvosti archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Ajacicyathidae
Rotundocyathus hupei archaeocyath sponge
Nochoroicyathus crassus archaeocyath sponge
Nochoroicyathus infundibulus archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Porocoscinidae
Geniculicyathus varius Debrenne 1960 archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Asterocyathidae
Erismacoscinus diourii archaeocyath sponge
Erismacoscinus marocanus archaeocyath sponge
 Archaeocyathida - Loculicyathidae
Neoloculicyathus abadiei archaeocyath sponge
 Archaeocyathida - Archaeopharetridae
Protopharetra gemmata archaeocyath sponge
Protopharetra cf. grandicaveata archaeocyath sponge
 Archaeocyathida - Copleicyathidae
Agastrocyathus gregarius archaeocyath sponge