El Koubbat Kou. 30 (Cretaceous of Morocco)

Where: Morocco (33.1° N, 5.3° W: paleocoordinates 21.9° N, 4.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Calcaires marneux du Santonien Formation, Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, yellow marl

• "laid down on a distal platform, under an important depth of water"
• "marnes jaunes indurées" (indurated yellow marls)

Size class: microfossils

Collection methods: Paul-Sabatier University collection

Primary reference: B. Andreu and G. Tronchetti. 1994. Ostracodes et foraminifères du Crétace supérieur du synclinal d'El Koubbat, moyen Atlas, Maroc. Geobios 29(1):45-71 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 94066: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 08.02.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• a list of forams from this unit is given but not broken down by bed
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Ostracoda
 Platycopida - Cytherellidae
Cytherella "sp. 1"
Cytherella "sp. 1" Jones 1849 ostracod
 Podocopida - Trachyleberididae
Trachyleberis sp., Cythereis aff. bigrandis
 Podocopida - Candonidae
Paracypris cf. mdaouerensis