A4, road from Menizla to Agadir Ou Azizen (Carboniferous of Morocco)

Where: Morocco (30.6° N, 9.1° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 7.9° S, 1.8° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Menizla Formation, Stephanian B (301.5 - 301.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - small; lithified, black shale

• Lacustrine sediments in alluvial plain sediments. Ida Ou Zal subbasin of Souss Basin, representing the earliest post-Hercynian extensional phase.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: Repository: Université Chouaib Doukkali, Départment de Géologie, El Jadida, Morocco

Primary reference: D. Hmich, J. W. Schneider, J. Saber and M. El Wartiti. 2003. First Permocarboniferous insects (blattids) from North Africa (Morocco) - implications on palaeobiogeography and palaeoclimatology. Freiberger Forschungshefte C 499:117-134 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 155289: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 06.04.2014

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Blattodea - Mylacridae
Opsiomylacris thevenini
Opsiomylacris thevenini Meunier 1912 cockroach
A4/2, 4/3