Dades Valley 1, Choucht Fm (Jurassic of Morocco)

Where: Morocco (31.6° N, 5.9° W: paleocoordinates 25.9° N, 3.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Choucht Formation, Spinatum (189.6 - 183.0 Ma)

• Upper Pliensbachian, Spinatum chronozone, mainly Elisa subchronozone

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; packstone and mudstone

• Shallow-water deposits made of pack-to-mudstone beds deposited in a carbonate

•platform environment (shoreface - offshore transition). Reworked algae, ammonites, belemnites and Zoophycos.

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 203735: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 23.08.2019

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Hildoceratidae
Emaciaticeras sp.
Emaciaticeras sp. Fucini 1931 ammonite
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia -
Neorylstonia pseudocolumellata
Neorylstonia pseudocolumellata Beauvais 1986 stony coral
Coccolithophyceae
 Watznaueriales - Watznaueriaceae
Lotharingius sigillatus
 Ichnofossils -
Zoophycos sp.
Zoophycos sp. Massalongo 1855