Where: Morocco (30.8° N, 5.8° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 79.7° S, 102.4° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Fezouata Formation, Floian (477.1 - 471.3 Ma)

• About 35 meters below base of Tachilla

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified, sandy, calcareous limestone and lithified, gray, green shale

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: E. L. O. Martin, M. Vidal, D. Vizcaïno, R. Vaucher, P. Sansjofre, B. Lefebvre, and J. Destombes. 2016. Biostratigraphic and palaeoenvironmental controls on the trilobite associations from the Lower Ordovician Fezouata Shale of the central Anti-Atlas, Morocco. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 460:142-154 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 197278: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 30.10.2018

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