Where: Morocco (32.2° N, 4.3° W: paleocoordinates 27.1° N, 0.3° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Agoudim Formation, Discites (171.6 - 167.7 Ma)
• Lower member of the Agoudim Fm; Hypertioceras discites zone 'A'
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; gray marl and limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Specimen could be same as in Sadki D. and Almeras Y., 1992 - Le Brachiopods aaleno-bajociens de la region Rich (Haut-Atlas central, Maroc): implications biostratigraphiques et paleoecologiques. Cahiers Inst. Catho. Lyon, ser. Sci., 5: 93-105
Primary reference: D. Sadki. 1994. Proposition de la region de Rich (Haut-Atlas central marocain) comme stratotype auxiliaire submediterranen pour la limite Aalenien Bajocien. Geobios 17:431-440 [M. Aberhan/T. Schossleitner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 141231: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 21.03.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Zeilleria cf. truncatella Rothpletz 1886 | |
Bivalvia | |
Palaeoneilo sp. Hall and Whitfield 1869 clam | |
Palaeonucula hammeri Defrance 1825 nut clam | |
Cephalopoda | |
"Rhodaniceras prosphues" = Eudmetoceras, Haplopleuroceras sp.
"Rhodaniceras prosphues" = Eudmetoceras ammonite
Haplopleuroceras sp. ammonite | |
Fontannesia despecta, Asthenoceras sp., "Euhoploceras sp." = Sonninia (Euhoploceras), "Euhoploceras dominans" = Sonninia (Euhoploceras), "Nannoceras sp." = Sonninia (Euhoploceras)
Fontannesia despecta ammonite
Asthenoceras sp. ammonite
"Euhoploceras sp." = Sonninia (Euhoploceras) ammonite
"Euhoploceras dominans" = Sonninia (Euhoploceras) ammonite
"Nannoceras sp." = Sonninia (Euhoploceras) ammonite | |
"Hyperlioceras (Toxolioceras) sp." = Hyperlioceras
"Hyperlioceras (Toxolioceras) sp." = Hyperlioceras ammonite | |
Trilobiticeras sp. Buckman 1919 ammonite | |
Protoecotraustes sp. ammonite | |
Praestrigites sp. Buckman 1924 ammonite |