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 | |
Hammatoceras aff. insigne Schubler 1831 ammonite | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Stroudithyris stephanoides Almeras and Moulan 1982
Stroudithyris infraoolithica Deslongchamps 1871
Monsardithyris catzigrasae Almeras and Moulan 1982 |