Seheb el Rhassal, orbiculare Bed (Devonian of Morocco)

Where: Morocco (31.3° N, 4.2° W: paleocoordinates 35.1° S, 6.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Famennian (370.6 - 364.7 Ma)

• Upper UD IV-C

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the MfN

Primary reference: R. T. Becker, M. R. House, J. Bockwinkel, V. Ebbighausen, and Z. S. Aboussalam. 2002. Famennian ammonoid zones of the eastern Anti-Atlas (southern Morocco). Münstersche Forschungen zur Geologie und Paläontologie 93:159-205 [M. Clapham/K. Okamoto/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 179113: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 29.05.2016

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Clymeniida - Cyrtoclymeniidae
Protactoclymenia giganta n. sp. Becker and House 2002 ammonite