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 'B'
• 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 141235: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 21.03.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Loboidothyris sp. Buckman 1917 | |
Cephalopoda | |
"Euhoploceras sp." = Sonninia (Euhoploceras), "Nannoceras nannomorphum" = Sonninia (Euhoploceras) nannomorpha
"Euhoploceras sp." = Sonninia (Euhoploceras) Buckman 1913 ammonite
"Nannoceras nannomorphum" = Sonninia (Euhoploceras) nannomorpha Buckman 1923 ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
Palaeonucula hammeri Defrance 1825 nut clam | |
Nicaniella (Traustcholdia) sp. Chavan 1945 clam | |
Ctenostreon sp. Eichwald 1862 file clam | |
Chlamys sp. Röding 1798 scallop |