BD5 (Devonian of Morocco)

Also known as Harpes/Thysanopeltis couche

Where: Morocco (31.1° N, 4.9° W: paleocoordinates 47.6° S, 19.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: El Otfal Formation, Eifelian (393.3 - 387.7 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, nodular, gray wackestone and lithified, calcareous mudstone

• Formation is limestone (seminodular, dark grey wackestone to calcareous mudstone), interbedded with calcareous shale. The part of the section that is mined for trilobites at this locality is composed of three beds of limestone (10 cm thick or slightly less) that are rubbly wackestone to calcareous mudstone, and then is overlain by interbedded light grey crumbly calcareous shale and wackestone.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: S. Gibb and B. D. E. Chatterton. 2007. Timsaloproetus New Genus (Proetida: Trilobita) and Included Species from Lower and Middle Devonian Strata of Southern Morocco. Journal of Paleontology 81(2):352-367 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Hopkins]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 142429: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 11.04.2013, edited by Pete Wagner and Allart Van Viersen

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Proetida - Otarionidae
Cyphaspis smeenki n. sp.2
Cyphaspis smeenki n. sp.2 Van Viersen and Holland 2016 trilobite
 Proetida - Proetidae
Timsaloproetus haasi, Gerastos aintawilus n. sp.1
Timsaloproetus haasi Alberti 1971 trilobite
Gerastos aintawilus n. sp.1 Gibb and Chatterton 2010 trilobite
1Gibb and Chatterton 2010; 2Van Viersen and Holland 2016