CDUE-74-M, Menizla Village, water storage basin (Carboniferous of Morocco)

Where: Morocco (30.6° N, 9.1° W: paleocoordinates 10.7° S, 0.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Menizla Formation, Stephanian B (301.5 - 301.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - small; lithified, black shale

• Lacustrine sediments in alluvial plain sediments. Ida Ou Zal subbasin of Souss Basin, representing the earliest post-Hercynian extensional phase.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: Repository: Université Chouaib Doukkali, Départment de Géologie, El Jadida, Morocco

Primary reference: D. Hmich, J. W. Schneider, J. Saber and M. El Wartiti. 2003. First Permocarboniferous insects (blattids) from North Africa (Morocco) - implications on palaeobiogeography and palaeoclimatology. Freiberger Forschungshefte C 499:117-134 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 127454: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 15.05.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Blattodea - Mylacridae
Opsiomylacris thevenini
Opsiomylacris thevenini Meunier 1912 cockroach
Form A: M1/13a, 2/11, 3/30, 34; Form B: M1/6, 15, 18, 20, 21, 22, 2/1, 7, 15, 17, 35, 42, 55, 59, 3/3, 11, 19, 39, 42, 44, 47, 49, 53, 69
 Dicondylia - Phyloblattidae
Phyloblatta occidentalis, Anthracoblattina striata
Phyloblatta occidentalis Scudder 1890 winged insect
M2-12, M4-15a,b, M4-18a,b, M4-48a,b
Anthracoblattina striata Meunier 1921 winged insect
M4/56