Z-F00. Jebel Bou Zeroual (Ordovician of Morocco)

Also known as Z-F0

Where: Anti Atlas, Morocco (30.5° N, 5.9° W: paleocoordinates 76.9° S, 104.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Baltograptus jacksoni graptolite zone, Upper Fezouata Formation, Floian (477.7 - 470.0 Ma)

• Upper Fezouata Fm, level with Baltograptus geometricus, Baltograptus vacillans

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (siliceous); siltstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Primary reference: B. Kröger and B. Lefebvre. 2012. Palaeogeography and palaeoecology of early Floian (Early Ordovician) cephalopods from the Upper Fezouata Formation, Anti-Atlas, Morocco. Fossil Record 15(2):61-75 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 166726: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 24.02.2015, edited by Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Asaphellus aff. jujuanus2 Harrington 1937 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
Ampyx priscus2 Thoral 1935 trilobite
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
 Phacopida - Cheiruridae
Foulonia peregrina2 Dean 1966 trilobite
 Phacopida - Bathycheilidae
Parabathycheilus gallicus2 Dean 1965 trilobite
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Prionocheilus sp.2 Rouault 1847 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Leiostegiidae
Agerina quadrata2 Dean 1966 trilobite
 Olenida - Eulomidae
Euloma sp.2 Angelin 1854 trilobite
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Metagnostidae
? Geragnostus sp.2 Howell 1935
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Lesueurillidae
Lesueurilla prima1 Perner 1903 snail
 Bellerophontida - Sinuitidae
Sinuites sp.1 Koken 1896 snail
Tergomya
 Cyrtonellida - Carcassonnellidae
Cephalopoda
 Dissidocerida - Polymeridae
Polymeres sp. Murchison 1839
Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Didymograptidae
Baltograptus vacillans Tullberg 1880 graptolite
Baltograptus geometricus Törnquist 1901 graptolite