GI-D, Gara el Itima (Carboniferous of Morocco)

Where: Morocco (31.1° N, 3.6° W: paleocoordinates 21.4° S, 0.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hamou-Rhanem Formation, Brigantian (336.0 - 330.9 Ma)

• Lusitanoceras- Lyrogoniatites ammonoid zone. Horizon GI-5.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (); lithified shale

• monotonous shales

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C. Klug in 1999; reposited in the MfN

Primary reference: C. Klug, S. Döring, D. Korn and V. Ebbinghausen. 2006. The Visean sedimentary succession at the Gara el Itima (Anti-Atlas, Morocco) and its ammonoid faunas. Fossil Record 9(1):3-60 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 61443: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 12.06.2006, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Prolecanitida - Prolecanitidae
Prolecanites sp. Mojsisovics 1882 ammonite
 Prolecanitida - Daraelitidae
Epicanites sp. Schindewolf 1926 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Dimorphoceratidae
Dimorphoceratidae indet. Hyatt 1884 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Goniatitidae
Hypergoniatites sp. Ruzhencev and Bogoslovskaya 1970 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Delepinoceratidae
Dombarites sp. Librovitch 1957 ammonite