Also known as Horizon TAR-0.7, Tarhoucht, Morocco - Geyer and Mergl 1997

Where: Morocco (31.5° N, 5.0° W: paleocoordinates 61.5° S, 115.8° E)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cephalopyge notabilis trilobite zone, Breche a Micmacca Member (Jbel Wawrmast Formation), Lenian (516.0 - 510.2 Ma)

• About 0.7 m above the base of the bed. It is from this section that most of the spectacular commercial giant Cambrian trilobites of Morocco come from. Lower portion of zone

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, gray, yellow, sandy marl

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

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 9801: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 20.01.2001, edited by Mihaela Krause and Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)