Kerrando Gourrama area, Bed 41 (Jurassic of Morocco)

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

• epaisse serie de marnes grises, entrecoupee par de petit bancs calcaires dont le pendage varie de 30 a 40 vers le Nord

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 141232: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 21.03.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Graphoceratidae
"Braunsina semilens" = Hyperlioceras, "Braunsina sp." = Hyperlioceras, "Hyperlioceras (Toxolioceras) sp." = Hyperlioceras, "Hyperlioceras (Toxolioceras) mundum" = Hyperlioceras, Hyperlioceras (Toxolioceras) incisum
"Braunsina semilens" = Hyperlioceras ammonite
"Braunsina sp." = Hyperlioceras ammonite
"Hyperlioceras (Toxolioceras) sp." = Hyperlioceras ammonite
"Hyperlioceras (Toxolioceras) mundum" = Hyperlioceras ammonite