Where: Morocco (31.4° N, 5.0° W: paleocoordinates 63.7° S, 115.4° E)
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Breche a Micmacca Member (Jbel Wawrmast Formation), Delamaran (511.2 - 506.5 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified, gray, yellow, sandy marl
Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils
Preservation: replaced with calcite, replaced with phosphate
Collection methods: Only includes brachiopods for genus/species descriptions.
Primary reference: G. Geyer and T. Vincent. 2015. The Paradoxides puzzle resolved: the appearance of the oldest paradoxidines and its bearing on the Cambrian Series 3 lower boundary. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 89:335-398 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 174210: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 04.11.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Edrioasteroidea | |
Edrioasteroidea indet. Billings 1858 | |
Obolellata | |
Helcionelloida | |
Marocella mira Geyer 1986 | |
Trilobita | |
Protolenus (Protolenus) densigranulatus, Hamatolenus maroccanus, Hamatolenus (Hamatolenus) meridionalis, Hamatolenus (Hamatolenus) vincenti, Kingaspidoides aff. laetus, Kingaspidoides laetus, Latoucheia (Latoucheia) epichara
Protolenus (Protolenus) densigranulatus Geyer 1990 trilobite
Hamatolenus maroccanus trilobite
Hamatolenus (Hamatolenus) meridionalis trilobite
Hamatolenus (Hamatolenus) vincenti Geyer and Landing 2004 trilobite
Kingaspidoides aff. laetus trilobite
Kingaspidoides laetus trilobite
Latoucheia (Latoucheia) epichara trilobite | |
"Acadoparadoxides pampalius" = Paradoxides (Acadoparadoxides)
"Acadoparadoxides pampalius" = Paradoxides (Acadoparadoxides) trilobite | |
Shergoldiella vincenti Geyer 2006 trilobite |