In a creek bed, close to the primary school of Tarhia (Cambrian of Morocco)

Where: Morocco (31.4° N, 5.0° W: paleocoordinates 61.6° S, 115.9° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cephalopyge notabilis trilobite zone, Brèche à Micmacca Member (Jbel Wawrmast Formation), Lenian (516.0 - 510.2 Ma)

• Agdzian. (Cambrian stage 4–5 boundary). basal Cephalopyge notabilis Zone

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; mudstone

• The Formation commences with episodic hiatal shell accumulation layers capped with stromatolitic crusts and interbedded with mudstone—the Brèche à Micmacca Member—and passes upwards into the muddier Tarhoucht Member.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: A. B. Smith and S. Zamora. 2013. Cambrian spiral-plated echinoderms from Gondwana reveal the earliest pentaradial body plan. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 280(1765) [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 161461: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 05.09.2014

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Accaparadoxides sp.
Trilobita
 Redlichiida - Ellipsocephalidae
Hamatolenus sp.
Hamatolenus sp. Hupe 1952 trilobite
 Redlichiida - Holmiidae
Cambropallas telesto
Cambropallas telesto Geyer 1993 trilobite
Helicocystis moroccoensis
  - Helicocystitidae
Helicocystis moroccoensis
Helicocystis moroccoensis Smith and Zamora 2013