Ceratarges Horizon, Saredrar (Devonian to of Morocco)

Where: Morocco (30.8° N, 5.5° W: paleocoordinates 51.6° S, 23.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: El Otfal Formation, Emsian to Emsian (407.6 - 387.7 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, calcareous limestone

• fairly pure limestone. largely micritic.

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: R. Lerosey-Aubril, R. Feist, and B. D. E. Chatterton. 2008. The ontogeny and systematics of the otarionine rilobites Otarionella from the Devonian of the Montagne Noire, France and the Maider, Morocco. Geological Magazine 145(1):55-71 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 181544: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 15.09.2016

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Proetida - Proetidae
Gerastos hammii n. sp.
Gerastos hammii n. sp. Gibb and Chatterton 2010 trilobite