El Atrous (Annulata zone) (Devonian of Morocco)

Where: Morocco (31.0° N, 4.1° W: paleocoordinates 35.5° S, 6.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Annulata ammonoid zone, Middle Famennian (370.6 - 364.7 Ma)

• Apparently different horizon from other collections mentioned in Korn (2000), but the papers do not give sufficient information to be certain.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, black limestone

• Single black limestone bed 15 cm thick

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by D. Korn in 1993

• Repository: Geologie und Paläontologie Institut Tübingen

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 170843: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 27.06.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida - Sporadoceratidae
Erfoudites zizensis Korn 1999 ammonite