Sidi Bou Rjaa, Oued Tidzi, Gentil Collection (Cretaceous of Morocco)

Where: Morocco (31.3° N, 9.7° W: paleocoordinates 25.2° N, 3.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Barremian (129.4 - 125.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified marl and lithified limestone

• a basin with the deepest water from Cap Ghir to Cap Tafelney and more shallow water conditions to the east

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: F. A. Middlemiss. 1980. Lower Cretaceous Terebratulidae from south-western Morocco and their biogeography. Palaeontology 23(3):515-556 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/M. Manojlovic]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 66582: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 11.10.2006

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Taxonomic list

• Terebratulidae only
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Sellithyrididae
Boubeithyris pleta n. sp. Middlemiss 1980