Oretanian section, Tachilla Fm., Anti-Atlas Mts., Morocco (Ordovician of Morocco)

Where: Morocco (32.0° N, 4.0° W: paleocoordinates 78.5° S, 98.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Tachilla Formation, Oretanian (468.0 - 459.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, concretionary, shelly/skeletal, gray, green, argillaceous shale

• Fossiliferous nodules in green-grey to reddish shale with occasional coquinoids and grey, clayey banks

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

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 20978: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 13.06.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Primarily bivalve taxonomy and biostrat.
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unclassified
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Gompholithes sp.
Bivalvia
 Nuculida - Praenuculidae
Praenucula sp.
Praenucula sp. Pfab 1934 clam
 Solemyida - Ctenodontidae
Ctenodonta sp.
Ctenodonta sp. Salter 1852 clam
 Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Redonia sp.
Redonia sp. Rouault 1851 clam
 Cardioni - Coxiconchiidae
"Coxiconcha sp." = Coxiconchia
"Coxiconcha sp." = Coxiconchia Babin 1966 clam
Hyolitha
 Hyolithida -
Pauxillites sp.
 Hyolithida - Hyolithidae
Elegantilites sp.
Elegantilites sp. Marek 1966
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Euorthisinidae
Euorthisina sp.
Ostracoda
 Palaeocopida - Tetradellidae
Tetradella sp.
Tetradella sp. Ulrich 1890 ostracod
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
Ormathops sp.
Ormathops sp. Delo 1935 trilobite
 Phacopida - Homalonotidae
Colpocoryphe sp., Plaesiacomia sp.
Colpocoryphe sp. Novak and Perner 1918 trilobite
Plaesiacomia sp. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite
 Phacopida - Bathycheilidae
Bathycheilus sp.
Bathycheilus sp. Holub 1908 trilobite
 Phacopida - Pliomeridae
Placoparia sp.
Placoparia sp. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Ogygiocaris sp.
Ogygiocaris sp. Angelin 1854 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
? Dysplanus sp.
? Dysplanus sp. Burmeister 1843 trilobite
Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Dichograptidae
Didymograptus sp.
Didymograptus sp. McCoy 1851 graptolite