Bou Tchrafine, Gonioclymenia bed (Devonian of Morocco)

Where: Morocco (31.2° N, 3.8° W: paleocoordinates 32.6° S, 4.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Gonioclymenia ammonoid zone, Erfoud Formation, Late/Upper Famennian (364.7 - 360.7 Ma)

• PJW: This should be Erfoud Formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; nodular limestone

• clayey nodular limestone beds

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Collected by D. Korn in 1993; reposited in the MfN

Primary reference: D. Korn. 1999. Famennian ammonoid stratigraphy of the Ma'der and Tafilalt (eastern Anti-Atlas, Morocco). Abhandlungen der Geologischen Bundesanstalt 54:147-179 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 170756: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 26.06.2015

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida - Tornoceratidae
cf. Tornoceratidae indet.
cf. Tornoceratidae indet. Arthaber 1911 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Prionoceratidae
Mimimitoceras cf. lineare
 Clymeniida - Cymaclymeniidae
Cymaclymenia subvexa
Cymaclymenia subvexa Korn 2014 ammonite
 Clymeniida - Kosmoclymeniidae
Kosmoclymenia sp., Kosmoclymenia inaequistriata
Kosmoclymenia sp. Schindewolf 1949 ammonite
Kosmoclymenia inaequistriata Muenster 1832 ammonite
 Clymeniida - Gonioclymeniidae
Gonioclymenia speciosa