Destombes Loc. 1100. Jbel Amougner (E of Tazzarine). (Ordovician of Morocco)

Also known as Ktaoua Grp, Unknown Mbr, Ktaoua Fm., Anti-Atlas Mountains, Morocco

Where: Zagora, Morocco (31.1° N, 5.3° W: paleocoordinates 82.1° S, 86.8° E)

When: Assif bou Zeggarh Member (Lower Ktaoua Formation), Berounian (457.9 - 449.8 Ma)

• PJW: Was: Unknown or unnamed member of this formation, although possibly just a local section.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, sandy shale

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. Destombes. 1971. L'ordovicien au Maroc; essai de synthese stratigraphique. Mémoires du Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières 73:237-263 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 21000: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 14.06.2002

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Phacopida - Cheiruridae
Eccoptochile sp. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
"Eudolatites aff. dubius" = Eudolatites dubia Barrande 1846 trilobite
Dalmanitina (Dalmanitina) socialis Barrande 1846 trilobite
 Phacopida - Homalonotidae
Colpocoryphe grandis Snajdr 1956 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Trinucleidae
Marrolithus sp. Bancroft 1929 trilobite
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Eotomariidae
Clathrospira amouguerana Horný 1997 snail
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Giraldiellidae