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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Clathrospira amouguerana Horný 1997 snail | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Trilobita | |
"Eudolatites aff. dubius" = Eudolatites dubia, Dalmanitina (Dalmanitina) socialis
"Eudolatites aff. dubius" = Eudolatites dubia Barrande 1846 trilobite
Dalmanitina (Dalmanitina) socialis Barrande 1846 trilobite | |
Eccoptochile sp. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite | |
Colpocoryphe grandis Snajdr 1956 trilobite | |
Marrolithus sp. Bancroft 1929 trilobite |