Jebel Tagount, Atlas (Jurassic of Morocco)

Also known as Reef 3501

Where: Morocco (32.3° N, 4.9° W: paleocoordinates 25.0° N, 4.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Oxynotum (196.5 - 189.6 Ma)

• Lotharingian, Oxynotum zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• on the top of a bioherm

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: R. du Dresnay, G. Termier, and H. Termier. 1978. Les hexactinellides (lyssakides et dictyonines) du Lias Marocain [Hexactinellida (Lyssakida and Dictyida) from the Liassic of Morocco]. Geobios 11(3):269-295 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 68512: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 25.01.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Hexactinellida
 Lyssacinosa - Euplectellidae
Tagountia flexuosa n. gen. n. sp.
Tagountia flexuosa n. gen. n. sp. glass sponge