El Jorf (Devonian of Morocco)

Where: Morocco (31.5° N, 4.5° W: paleocoordinates 47.3° S, 20.0° E)

When: Eifelian (393.3 - 387.7 Ma)

• No additonal comments on the stratigraphy were done by the authors

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified, fine-grained, red, calcareous limestone

• More information is missing
• Dark reddish micritic limestones

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original calcite

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• Museo Geológico del Seminario de Barcelona (MGSB)

•Museo del Mamut de Barcelona(Spain)(MMB)

Primary reference: J. Corbacho and F. J. López-Soriano. 2013. Two new species of Trochurinae trilobites from the Middle Devonian (Eifelian) of Southern Morocco. Batalleria 18:15-24 [W. Kiessling/S. Triple]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 158175: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Super Triple on 16.07.2014

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Lichida - Lichidae
Basseiarges mellishae
Basseiarges mellishae Corbacho and López-Soriano 2013 trilobite