Jebel Ouaoufilal East (Devonian of Morocco)

Where: Morocco (31.0° N, 4.0° W: paleocoordinates 32.9° S, 3.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Endosiphonites muensteri ammonoid zone, Late/Upper Famennian (364.7 - 360.7 Ma)

• Late Palmatolepis trachytera conodont zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified claystone

• claystone unit, 8 m thick, with haematitic ammonoids

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Primary reference: D. Korn, C. Klug, and A. Reisdorf. 2000. Middle Famennian ammonoid stratigraphy in the Amessoui Syncline (Late Devonian; eastern Anti-Atlas, Morocco). Travaux de l'Institut Scientifique Rabat, Serie Geologie et Geographie Physique 20:69-77 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 135652: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 31.10.2012

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Clymeniida - Platyclymeniidae
Platyclymenia sp. Hyatt 1884 ammonite
 Clymeniida - Costaclymeniidae
Endosiphonites muensteri Ansted 1838 ammonite
 Clymeniida - Cymaclymeniidae
Cymaclymenia sp. Hyatt 1884 ammonite
 Clymeniida - Cyrtoclymeniidae
Cyrtoclymenia sp. Hyatt 1884 ammonite
 Clymeniida - Rectoclymeniidae
Falciclymenia sp. Schindewolf 1923 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Tornoceratidae
Gundolficeras sp. Becker 1995 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Posttornoceratidae
Alpinites sp. Bogoslovsky 1971 ammonite
Discoclymenia cucullata von Buch 1832 ammonite
"Posttornoceras weyeri" = Ebbighausenites weyeri Korn 1999 ammonite
Posttornoceras cf. balvei Wedekind 1910 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Prionoceratidae
Prionoceras frechi Wedekind 1913 ammonite
Prionoceras cf. divisum Munster 1832 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Praeglyphioceratidae
? Praeglyphioceras sp. Wedekind 1908 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Sporadoceratidae
Erfoudites rherisensis Korn 1999 ammonite