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 | |
Sudeticeras sp. Patteisky 1929 ammonite | |
Neogoniatites delicatus n. sp.
Neogoniatites delicatus n. sp. Korn et al. 1999 ammonite | |
cf. Lusitanoceras sp. Pereira Sousa 1923 ammonite |