Destombes Loc. 0023. East of JBel Bau Dehir, east of Zagora (472.4 x 378.7) (Ordovician of Morocco)

Where: Morocco (31.4° N, 5.8° W: paleocoordinates 76.2° S, 102.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Baltograptus jacksoni graptolite zone, Middle Member (Upper Fezouata Formation), Floian (477.7 - 470.0 Ma)

• Early Arenig

• member-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. HornĂ½. 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 56568: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 21.11.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida -
Thoralispira laevis Thoral 1935 snail
Bivalvia
 Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Trilobita
 Olenida - Eulomidae
? Euloma sp. Angelin 1854 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Asaphellus aff. jujuanus Harrington 1937 trilobite
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Neseuretus sp. Hicks 1873 trilobite