Jebel Debouaa, Mfis, Bed 1c, Tafilalt, Anti-Atlas (Carboniferous of Morocco)

Where: Morocco (31.0° N, 3.9° W: paleocoordinates 29.0° S, 0.8° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tournaisian (358.9 - 346.7 Ma)

• Gattendorfia-Eocanites zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, silty shale

• greyish-green silty shales with dark red sideritic nodules, particularily common in the upper part, 9.10 m thick

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. Bockwinkel and V. Ebbighausen. 2006. A new ammonoid fauna from the Gattendorfia-Eocanites Genozone of the Anti-Atlas (Early Carboniferous; Morocco). Fossil Record 9(1):87-129 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 66270: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 06.10.2006

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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aff. Patularima sp.
Cephalopoda
 Prolecanitida - Prolecanitidae
Eocanites simplex
Eocanites simplex Bockwinkel and Ebbighausen 2006 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Gattendorfiidae
Acutimitoceras sp., Acutimitoceras intermedium, Acutimitoceras subbilobatum, Acutimitoceras occidentale n. sp., Acutimitoceras mfisense n. sp.
Acutimitoceras sp. Librovitch 1957 ammonite
sp. 2
Acutimitoceras intermedium Schindewolf 1923 ammonite
Acutimitoceras subbilobatum Munster 1839 ammonite
Acutimitoceras occidentale n. sp. Bockwinkel and Ebbighausen 2006 ammonite
Acutimitoceras mfisense n. sp. Bockwinkel and Ebbighausen 2006 ammonite