Issouka, Jebel Ait Temama, Atlas (Jurassic of Morocco)

Also known as Reef 2425

Where: Morocco (33.5° N, 4.3° W: paleocoordinates 27.0° N, 4.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Pliensbachian (189.6 - 183.0 Ma)

• Carixian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. du Dresnay, G. Termier, and H. Termier. 1978. Les hexactinellides (lyssakides et dictyonines) du Lias Marocain [Hexactinellida (Lyssakida and Dictyida) from the Liassic of Morocco]. Geobios 11(3):269-295 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 68514: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 25.01.2007

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Taxonomic list

Hexactinellida
 Hexactinosa - Euretidae
? Verrucocoelia sp. Etallon 1859 glass sponge