Where: Morocco (33.7° N, 5.6° W: paleocoordinates 33.6° N, 5.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tortonian to Tortonian (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• Late Tortonian or Early Messinian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; marl and claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. Lauriat-Rage, A. B. Moussa, J.-P. Piquet and J.-P. Saint Martin. 1999. The bivalvia (Mollusca) from the Upper Miocene of the Sais Basin (Southern Rifian Corridor, Morocco). Palaeobiogeography and paleoecology. Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España 12(1):77-84 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/S. Ávila]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 173160: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 10.09.2015

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