Also known as Bed 1822 of reference, Ktaoua Grp, Anti-Atlas Mts., Morocco

Where: Maïder, Morocco (31.0° N, 5.0° W: paleocoordinates 82.0° S, 88.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Ktaoua Formation (Ktaoua Group), Dobrotivian to Dobrotivian (459.0 - 449.8 Ma)

• "Ce gisement se situe dans la Formation inferieure du Ktaoua du Groupe du Ktaoua". The Lower Ktaoua is that lowest formation of that Ktaoua Group.

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, concretionary limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C. Babin and J. Destombes. 1990. Les mollusques bivalves et rostroconches Ordoviciens de l’Anti-Atlas marocain: Intérêt paléogéographique de leur inventaire. Géologie Méditerranéenne 17:243-261 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 20970: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 13.06.2002

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