Destombes Loc. 1320. East of Khabt el Hejar (E of Erfoud, Tafilalt) 630 x 92.5 (Ordovician of Morocco)
Where: Morocco (31.5° N, 4.2° W: paleocoordinates 78.9° S, 99.6° E)
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Tachilla Formation, Oretanian (466.0 - 460.9 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified shale and lithified limestone
• shaly, micaceous argillites and rare sandstone beds. Typiccaly with bioturbation and presence of frequenct beds with fossiliferous nodules.
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: R. J. Horný. 1997. Ordovician Tergomya and Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Anti-Atlas (Morocco). Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae, Series B - Historia Naturalis 53(3-4):37-78 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 56176: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 14.11.2005
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Taxonomic list
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Tergomya | |
Tachillanella tafilaltensis Horný 1997 | |
Gastropoda | |
Selesinuites perneri Horný 1997 snail
Sinuites sowerbyi Perner 1903 snail
Cyrtodiscus nitidus Perner 1903 snail | |
"Tropidodiscus pusillus" = Peruniscus pusillus
"Tropidodiscus pusillus" = Peruniscus pusillus Perner 1903 snail | |
Lesueurilla prima Perner 1903 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Redonia deshayesi clam | |
cf. Ctenodonta escosurae Sharpe 1853 clam | |
"Praenucula cf. sharpei" = Praenucula applanans
"Praenucula cf. sharpei" = Praenucula applanans Barrande 1881 clam | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Hyolitha | |
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Ostracoda | |
Tetradella aff. complicata ostracod | |
Brephocharieis aff. complicata Salter 1848 ostracod | |
Trilobita | |
Lichida "indet." Moore 1959 trilobite | |
Dionide sp. Barrande 1847 trilobite | |
Asaphidae "indet." Burmeister 1843 trilobite | |
Illaenidae "indet." Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite | |
Placoparia sp. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite | |
Colpocoryphe sp. Novak and Perner 1918 trilobite | |
Ormathops clariondi trilobite |