Where: Morocco (34.0° N, 5.4° W: paleocoordinates 22.2° N, 4.4° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Wadi Daya Formation, Turonian (93.9 - 89.8 Ma)
• From the middle portion of the unit
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collection methods: Repository: Department of Geology, Faculty of Science, Meknes, Morocco
Primary reference: M. Benzaggagh, M. Oumhamed, B. Ferré and J. L. Latil. 2017. Turonian cephalopods (ammonoids and a nautiloid) from the Wadi Daya Formation of the Talerzha Basin (South Riffian Ridges Domain, northern Morocco). Cretaceous Research 74:109-119 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 184448: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.02.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Spathites (Jeanrogericeras) cf. reveliereanus Courtiller 1860 ammonite
Romaniceras (Yubariceras) cf. ornatissimum Stoliczka 1864 ammonite | |
Angulithes galea Fritsch 1872 |