CDUE 77-A5, road from Menizla to Agadir Ou Azizen (Carboniferous of Morocco)

Where: Morocco (30.6° N, 9.1° W: paleocoordinates 10.7° S, 0.3° W)

• 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, H. Saber and M. El Wartiti. 2005. Spiloblattinidae (Insecta, Blattida) from the Carboniferous of Morocco, North Africa - implications for biostratigraphy. In S. G. Lucas, K. E. Zeigler (eds.), The Nonmarine Permian, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 30:111-114 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 155290: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 06.04.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Dicondylia - Spiloblattinidae
Spiloblattina pygmaea
Spiloblattina pygmaea Meunier 1904 winged insect
A5-1, 120
 Dicondylia - Phyloblattidae
Phyloblatta occidentalis
Phyloblatta occidentalis Scudder 1890 winged insect
A5/13, 14, 75