Where: Morocco (31.9° N, 4.3° W: paleocoordinates 61.0° S, 116.0° E)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kymataspis arenosa trilobite zone, Jbel Wawrmast Formation (Feijas internes Group), Lenian (516.0 - 510.2 Ma)

• About 440m above the base of the formation. AGE: Lenian; refined by A. Hendy (6/2009) on the basis of biostratigraphic data (Kymataspis arenosa zone; early Toushamian = late Lenian)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified, yellow sandstone and lithified limestone

Preservation: replaced with calcite, replaced with phosphate

Collection methods: Only includes brachiopods for genus/species descriptions.

Primary reference: G. Geyer and M. Mergl. 1997. Protorthacean brachiopods from the Middle Cambrian of Morocco. Journal of Paleontology 71(5):791-812 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 9800: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 20.01.2001

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