Tazemmourt section T8 (Cambrian of Morocco)

Where: Morocco (30.4° N, 8.8° W: paleocoordinates 63.5° S, 113.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hupetina antiqua trilobite zone, Tiout Member (Idoudine Formation), Atdabanian (521.0 - 516.0 Ma)

• lowest trilobite biozone of Issendalenian, which is lower Series 2/Age 3

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• mottled limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G. Geyer. 2019. The earliest known West Gondwanan trilobites from the Anti-Atlas Mountains of Morocco, with a revision of the Family Bigotinidae Hupe, 1953. Fossils and Strata 64:55-153 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 233938: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 08.03.2024

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Redlichiida - Fallotaspididae
Eofallotaspis prima
Eofallotaspis prima Sdzuy 1978 trilobite
questionably identified
 Redlichiida - Bigotinidae
Hupetina antiqua, Eladiolinania pollux, Bigotina "sp. A", Bigotina monningeri
Hupetina antiqua Sdzuy 1978 trilobite
Eladiolinania pollux Geyer 2019 trilobite
Bigotina "sp. A" Cobbold 1935 trilobite
Bigotina monningeri Geyer 2019 trilobite