Kerrando Gourrama area, Bed 44: Discites, Morocco

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Loboidothyrididae
Loboidothyris sp. Buckman 1917
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Zeilleriidae
Zeilleria sp. Bayle 1878
Bivalvia - Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Grammatodon sp. Meek and Hayden 1860
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Chlamys sp. Röding 1798
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Ctenostreon sp. Eichwald 1862
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Nicaniella (Traustcholdia) sp. Chavan 1945
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Sonniniidae
Euhoploceras sp.
spelled with current rank as Sonninia (Euhoploceras)
Nannoceras sp. Buckman 1923
synonym of Sonninia (Euhoploceras)
Nannoceras nannomorphum Buckman 1923
recombined as Sonninia (Euhoploceras) nannomorpha
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Hammatoceratidae
Haplopleuroceras ? sp.
see common names

Geography
Country:Morocco
Coordinates: 32.2° North, 4.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:27.1° North, 0.3° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Middle Jurassic
Stage:Bajocian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 4
Key time interval:Discites
Age range of interval:170.90000 - 168.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Agoudim
Local section:Gourrama Local bed:44
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Lower member of the Agoudim Fm; Hypertioceras discites zone 'B'
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray marl
Secondary lithology: "limestone"
Lithology description: epaisse serie de marnes grises, entrecoupee par de petit bancs calcaires dont le pendage varie de 30 a 40 vers le Nord
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collection method comments: Specimen could be same as in Sadki D. and Almeras Y., 1992 - Le Brachiopods aaleno-bajociens de la region Rich (Haut-Atlas central, Maroc): implications biostratigraphiques et paleoecologiques. Cahiers Inst. Catho. Lyon, ser. Sci., 5: 93-105
Metadata
Database number:141234
Authorizer:M. Aberhan Enterer:T. Schossleitner
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2013-03-21 22:08:06 Last modified:2014-07-17 18:22:25
Access level:the public Released:2013-03-21 22:08:06
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

45839. D. Sadki. 1994. Proposition de la region de Rich (Haut-Atlas central marocain) comme stratotype auxiliaire submediterranen pour la limite Aalenien Bajocien. Geobios 17:431-440 [M. Aberhan/T. Schossleitner]