Also known as Draa Valley

Where: Morocco (30.5° N, 5.9° W: paleocoordinates 76.9° S, 104.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Fezouata Formation), Floian (477.7 - 470.0 Ma)

• fossils occur throughout the member, which spans the Floian

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (); lithified, green, silty mudstone and micaceous, sandy siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression, soft parts, replaced with pyrite

Reposited in the YPM

• specimens are in "the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, Lyon 1 University, the Natural History Museum of Lyon, the Natural History Museum of Marseille, the Natural History Museum of Toulouse, the National Museums of Scotland and the Sedgwick Museum"

Primary reference: P. Van Roy, P. J. Orr, J. P. Botting, L. A. Muir, J. Vinther, B. Lefebvre, K. Hariri and D. E. G. Briggs. 2010. Ordovician faunas of Burgess Shale type. Nature 215-218 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 96113: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 17.05.2010

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