Near Taouz (Carboniferous of Morocco)

Where: Morocco (31.0° N, 4.0° W: paleocoordinates 21.3° S, 0.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Brigantian (336.0 - 330.9 Ma)

• Collected loose and purchased. From near the Visean-Namurian boundary.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (float)

• Repository: Institut und Museum für Geologie und Paläontologie der Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen

Primary reference: D. Korn, C. Klug, and R. Mapes. 1999. Viséan and Early Namurian Ammonoids from the Tafilalt (Eastern Anti-Atlas, Morocco). Abhandlungen der Geologischen Bundesanstalt 54:345-375 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 177537: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.04.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida - Delepinoceratidae
cf. Lusitanoceras sp. Pereira Sousa 1923 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Goniatitidae
Neogoniatites delicatus n. sp. Korn et al. 1999 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Anthracoceratidae
Sudeticeras sp. Patteisky 1929 ammonite