Bou Tiouit section, Tarhoucht, bed 20m: Delamaran, Morocco

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Redlichiida - Ellipsocephalidae
Ornamentaspis cf. frankenwaldensis (Wurm 1925)
recombined as Kingaspidoides frankenwaldensis
Latoucheia (Latoucheia) epichara
Hamatolenus maroccanus
Hamatolenus (Hamatolenus) lotzei
Trilobita - Redlichiida - Paradoxididae
Acadoparadoxides ovatopyge Geyer and Vincent 2015
Acadoparadoxides nobilis (Geyer 1998)
Obolellata - Obolellida - Trematobolidae
Trematobolus splendidus
Edrioasteroidea
Edrioasteroidea indet. Billings 1858
see common names

Geography
Country:Morocco
Coordinates: 31.4° North, 5.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:63.7° South, 115.4° East
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cambrian
10 m.y. bin:Cambrian 3
Key time interval:Delamaran
Age range of interval:511.00000 - 506.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Feijas internes Formation:Jbel Wawrmast Member:Breche a Micmacca
Local section:Bou Tiouit Local bed:20 m
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray,yellow lithified sandy marl
Lithology description: Grayish to ochre-coloured sandy marlstones, laterally grading into calcareous fine-granied sandstones, 0.7m above the base of the formation.
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,replaced with calcite,replaced with phosphate
Size of fossils:mesofossils,microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Only includes brachiopods for genus/species descriptions.
Metadata
Database number:174294
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:M. Krause
Modifier:M. Krause Research group:micropaleontology
Created:2015-11-09 09:13:07 Last modified:2015-11-27 04:00:25
Access level:authorizer only Released:2016-02-09 09:13:07
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
56723. G. Geyer and T. Vincent. 2015. The Paradoxides puzzle resolved: the appearance of the oldest paradoxidines and its bearing on the Cambrian Series 3 lower boundary. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 89:335-398 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/P. Wagner]