Where: Morocco (30.5° N, 5.9° W: paleocoordinates 74.1° S, 108.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Araneograptus murrayi graptolite zone, Fezouata Formation, Tremadoc (486.5 - 477.7 Ma)
• "Fezouata Shales, Araneograptus murrayi biozone, Upper Tremadocian"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Reposited in National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic
Primary reference: L. A. Parry, G. D. Edgecombe, D. Sykes and J. Vinther. 2019. Jaw elements in Plumulites bengtsoni confirm that machaeridians are extinct armoured scaleworms. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286(1907):1-8 [P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 203101: authorized by Phil Novack-Gottshall, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 26.07.2019, edited by Mark Uhen and Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Polychaeta | |
Plumulites bengtsoni Vinther et al. 2008 scale worm | |
Aegirocassis benmoulae n. gen. n. sp.2
Aegirocassis benmoulae n. gen. n. sp.2 Van Roy et al. 2015 | |
Somasteroidea | |
"Cantabrigiaster fezouataensis n. gen. n. sp." = Villebrunaster fezouataensis1
"Cantabrigiaster fezouataensis n. gen. n. sp." = Villebrunaster fezouataensis1 Hunter and Ortega-Hernández 2021 |