Tazemmourt section T12 (Cambrian of Morocco)

Where: Morocco (30.4° N, 8.8° W: paleocoordinates 63.5° S, 113.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Eofallotaspis tioutensis trilobite zone, Tiout Member (Idoudine Formation), Atdabanian (521.0 - 516.0 Ma)

• low trilobite biozone of Issendalenian, which is lower Series 2/Age 3

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• archaeocyath limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G. Geyer. 2019. The earliest known West Gondwanan trilobites from the Anti-Atlas Mountains of Morocco, with a revision of the Family Bigotinidae Hupe, 1953. Fossils and Strata 64:55-153 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 233942: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 08.03.2024

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Redlichiida - Fallotaspididae
Eofallotaspis tioutensis Sdzuy 1978 trilobite
questionably identified
 Redlichiida - Bigotinidae
Bigotina "sp. B" Cobbold 1935 trilobite
Issendalenia grandispina Geyer 2019 trilobite
questionably identified
Debrenella larvalis
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