Also known as Llandeilo section, Tachilla Fm., Anti-Atlas Mountains, Morocco

Where: Morocco (31.4° N, 5.3° W: paleocoordinates 79.7° S, 96.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Desmochitina bulla other zone, Tachilla Formation, Oretanian (468.0 - 459.0 Ma)

• Basal 12 meters of the formation. That should be Desmochitina bulla chitinozoan zone

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified, shelly/skeletal grainstone

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 20985: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 13.06.2002, edited by Pete Wagner

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