Aït Athmane (level 7) (Jurassic of Morocco)

Where: Morocco (32.1° N, 4.4° W: paleocoordinates 26.9° N, 0.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hammatoceras speciosum ammonoid zone, Aït Athmane Formation, Late/Upper Toarcian (180.1 - 175.6 Ma)

• Samples are not numbered, so collections assigned sequential numbers

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified marl

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Département de Géologie de la Faculté des Sciences de Meknès

Primary reference: M. Benzaggagh, H. Khaffou, M. A. Salamon, T. Hssaida, M. El Ouali and B. Essafraoui. 2022. Ammonites du Toarcien du Haut Atlas central (Maroc). Annales de Paléontologie 108(102540) [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 228356: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 02.12.2022

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Hammatoceratidae
Hammatoceras aff. insigne Schubler 1831 ammonite
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Lissajousithyrididae
Monsardithyris catzigrasae Almeras and Moulan 1982
Stroudithyris stephanoides Almeras and Moulan 1982
Stroudithyris infraoolithica Deslongchamps 1871