Gheris Valley, Amellago area (meneghinii zone) (Jurassic of Morocco)

Where: Morocco (32.0° N, 5.0° W: paleocoordinates 27.1° N, 1.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Meneghinii ammonoid zone, Agoudim Marls Formation, Levesquei (182.0 - 175.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified marl

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected in 2001-2005

• Repository: Centre des Sciences de la Terre, Université de Bourgogne (abbreviation: UBGD), Dijon, France

Primary reference: R. Bourillot, P. Neige, A. Pierre and C. Durlet. 2008. Early-Middle Jurassic lytoceratid ammonites with constrictions from Morocco: palaeobiogeographical and evolutionary implications. Palaeontology 51:597-609 [A. Miller/K. Feser/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 145369: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 02.06.2013, edited by Kelsey Feser

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Lytoceratidae
Alocolytoceras coarctatum Pompeckj 1896 ammonite