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 174294: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 09.11.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Obolellata | |
Trilobita | |
Latoucheia (Latoucheia) epichara, Hamatolenus maroccanus, Hamatolenus (Hamatolenus) lotzei, "Ornamentaspis cf. frankenwaldensis" = Kingaspidoides frankenwaldensis
Latoucheia (Latoucheia) epichara trilobite
Hamatolenus maroccanus trilobite
Hamatolenus (Hamatolenus) lotzei trilobite
"Ornamentaspis cf. frankenwaldensis" = Kingaspidoides frankenwaldensis Wurm 1925 trilobite | |
Acadoparadoxides ovatopyge Geyer and Vincent 2015 trilobite
Acadoparadoxides nobilis Geyer 1998 trilobite | |
Edrioasteroidea | |
Edrioasteroidea indet. Billings 1858 |