GI-A, Gara el Itima (1998 Tubingen collection) (Carboniferous of Morocco)

Where: Morocco (31.0° N, 3.6° W: paleocoordinates 21.4° S, 0.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Zrigat Formation, Brigantian (336.0 - 330.9 Ma)

• uppermost Zrigat Formation, Lusitanoceras - Lyrogoniatites ammonoid Genus-Zones.

•Heidelberger et al. 2010: Dombarites granofalcatus Assemblage – The occurrence of the index species may indicate a middle Brigantian age, perhaps near the

•occurrence of the related genus Lusitanoceras in Central Europe.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (); lithified sandstone and lithified limestone

• sandstones with shales and siltstones and limestones

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C. Klug, S. Doring in 1998

• Repository: Institut fur Geowissenschaften, Tubingen University

Primary reference: D. Korn, C. Klug, and R. Mapes. 1999. Viséan and Early Namurian Ammonoids from the Tafilalt (Eastern Anti-Atlas, Morocco). Abhandlungen der Geologischen Bundesanstalt 54:345-375 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 61438: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 12.06.2006, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida - Delepinoceratidae
Dombarites granofalcatus Kullmann 1961 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Anthracoceratidae
Sudeticeras sp. Patteisky 1929 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Goniatitidae
? Hypergoniatites sp. Ruzhencev and Bogoslovskaya 1970 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Girtyoceratidae
Sulcogirtyoceras sp. Ruzhencev 1960 ammonite
 Prolecanitida - Prolecanitidae
Prolecanites sp.2 Mojsisovics 1882 ammonite
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Nodospira krawczynskii n. sp.1 Heidelberger et al. 2009 snail
 Euomphalina - Omphalotrochidae
Cinclidonema marocensis1 Heidelberger et al. 2009 snail
 Caenogastropoda - Orthonematidae
Orthonema sp.1 Meek and Worthen 1862 snail