Horizon TAT - 18.35, Tatelt, Jbel Wawrmast Form., Morocco - Geyer and Mergl 1997 (Cambrian of Morocco)

Where: Morocco (30.6° N, 5.8° W: paleocoordinates 65.3° S, 115.1° E)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cephalopyge notabilis zone, Breche a Micmacca Member (Jbel Wawrmast Formation), Solvan (510.2 - 504.5 Ma)

• second condensed, calcareous horizon.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, shelly/skeletal packstone

• Limonitic, bioclastic wacke-packstone.

Preservation: replaced with calcite, replaced with phosphate

Collection methods: Only includes brachiopods for genus/species descriptions.

Primary reference: G. Geyer and M. Mergl. 1997. Protorthacean brachiopods from the Middle Cambrian of Morocco. Journal of Paleontology 71(5):791-812 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 9796: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 19.01.2001, edited by Pete Wagner

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Protorthida - Protorthidae
Saesorthis "species A" Geyer and Mergl 1997
single valve of species A
Mobergellidae
  - Mobergellidae
Tateltella ranoculata n. gen. n. sp.
Tateltella ranoculata n. gen. n. sp. Streng and Skovsted 2006