Jebel Serdrar (Jurassic of Morocco)

Also known as Jebel Serdrar, Aberdouz Fm

Where: Morocco (32.0° N, 4.9° W: paleocoordinates 24.9° N, 4.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Oxynoticeras oxynotum + Echinoceras raricostatum ammonoid zone, Aberdouz Formation, Late/Upper Sinemurian (196.5 - 189.6 Ma)

• Oxynotum and Raricostatum chronozones

• group-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; reef rocks

• A 200m-high coral patch-reef growing on a fault bounded high (or margin), which was tectonically active during the Early Jurassic, surrounded by micritic limestones and marls deposited in lower offshore environment.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. Vasseur, S. Boivin, B. Lathuilière, I. Lazar, CDurlet, R. Martindale, S. Bodin and K. Elhmidi. 2019. Lower Jurassic corals from Morocco with skeletal structures convergent with those of Paleozoic rugosan corals. Palaeontologia Electronica 22( 22):2.48 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 203713: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 22.08.2019

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Echioceratidae
Paltechioceras sp.
Paltechioceras sp. Buckman 1924 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Asteroceratidae
Parasteroceras sp.
Parasteroceras sp. Dommergues et al. 1986 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Eoderoceratidae
Microderoceras (Eteoderoceras) sp.
 Ammonitida - Lytoceratidae
Bouhamidoceras ziziense