Destombes Loc. 1689. East of Jbel Bou Dehir, north of Zagora (473.8 x 393.3) (Ordovician of Morocco)

Where: Morocco (30.4° N, 5.8° W: paleocoordinates 77.6° S, 104.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Upper Fezouata Formation), Arenig (478.6 - 466.0 Ma)

• Early Arenig

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, green, yellow, argillaceous shale and lithified limestone

• Predominantly shaly yellow-green argillites

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 56612: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 21.11.2005

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Taxonomic list

Tergomya
 Cyrtonellida - Carcassonnellidae
Rostroconchia
 Ribeirioida - Technophoridae
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Lesueurillidae
Lesueurilla prima Perner 1903 snail
Bivalvia
 Cardioni - Babinkidae
Babinka prima Barrande 1881 clam
Hyolitha
 Hyolithida -
Trilobita
 Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
Ampyx cf. priscus Thoral 1935 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Asaphellus aff. jujuanus Harrington 1937 trilobite