Bou Tiouit section, Tarhoucht, bed 17m (Cambrian of Morocco)

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

• Grayish to ochre-coloured sandy marlstones, laterally grading into calcareous fine-granied sandstones, 0.7m above the base of the formation.

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 174291: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 09.11.2015

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Redlichiida - Ellipsocephalidae
Kingaspidoides laetus, Protolenus (Protolenus) densigranulatus
 Redlichiida - Paradoxididae
"Acadoparadoxides cf. mureroenis" = Paradoxides (Acadoparadoxides)
"Acadoparadoxides cf. mureroenis" = Paradoxides (Acadoparadoxides) trilobite
 Corynexochida - Oryctocephalidae
Shergoldiella vincenti
Shergoldiella vincenti Geyer 2006 trilobite
Obolellata
 Obolellida - Trematobolidae
Trematobolus splendidus