Jebel Bou Rharraf, ex situ (Miltoceras sellae/taguendoufi horizon) (Jurassic of Morocco)

Where: Morocco (32.6° N, 3.1° W: paleocoordinates 25.8° N, 0.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Jamesoni (189.6 - 183.0 Ma)

• Polymorphus, Brevispina, and ?Jamesoni subzones; Miltoceras sellae/Miltoceras taguendoufi biohorizon

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1999

• Repository: Muséum d’Histoire naturelle de Genève

Primary reference: C. Meister, J. L. Dommergues, C. Dommergues, N. Lachkar, and K. El Hariri. 2011. Les ammonites du Pliensbachien du jebel Bou Rharraf (Haut Atlas oriental, Maroc). Geobios 44:117.e1-117.e60 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 148938: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 27.07.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Eoderoceratidae
"Microderoceras (Eoderoceras) sp." = Eoderoceras, Metaderoceras brutum
"Microderoceras (Eoderoceras) sp." = Eoderoceras Spath 1925 ammonite
Metaderoceras brutum Wiedenmayer 1977 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Coeloceratidae
Miltoceras sellae Gemmellaro 1884 ammonite
Miltoceras roseum Wiedenmayer 1980 ammonite
Miltoceras taguendoufi El Hariri et al. 1996 ammonite
Miltoceras cf. bettonii Fucini 1908 ammonite