GI-K, Gara el Itima (Carboniferous of Morocco)

Where: Morocco (31.1° N, 3.7° W: paleocoordinates 21.4° S, 0.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Goniatites gerberi ammonoid zone, Zrigat Formation, Brigantian (336.0 - 330.9 Ma)

• Goniatites - Eoglyphioceras and Arnsbergites - Neoglyphioceras ammonoid Genus-Zones;

•Given as lower Goniatites gerberi Assemblage in Heidelberger et al., which is given as early Brigantian.

•Was Asbian - Brigantian.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (); lithified sandstone

• sandstones with poorly exposed shales and siltstones and limestones

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by V. Ebbighausen, D. Korn in 2004; reposited in the MfN

Primary reference: C. Klug, S. Döring, D. Korn and V. Ebbinghausen. 2006. The Visean sedimentary succession at the Gara el Itima (Anti-Atlas, Morocco) and its ammonoid faunas. Fossil Record 9(1):3-60 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 157750: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.07.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida - Goniatitidae
Goniatites stenumbilicatus Kullmann 1961 ammonite
Goniatites gerberi Korn and Ebbighausen 2006 ammonite
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Ananias weyeri Heidelberger et al. 2009 snail
 Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
Itimaspira klugi Heidelberger et al. 2009 snail