Zguilma section, Timrhanrhart Fm, Lower Bed, ZGEE1 : Late Emsian, Morocco

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita
Erbenochile erbeni (Alberti 1981)
rare category
Trilobita - Odontopleurida - Odontopleuridae
Koneprusia dahmani n. sp. Chatterton et al. 2006
occasional category
Leonaspis spinicurva n. sp. Chatterton et al. 2006
rare category
Leonaspis haddanei n. sp. Chatterton et al. 2006
rare-occasional category
Trilobita - Corynexochida - Styginidae
Scabriscutellum hammadi n. sp. Chatterton et al. 2006
rare category
Scabriscutellum lahceni n. sp. Chatterton et al. 2006
rare category
Trilobita - Proetida - Tropidocoryphidae
Tropidocoryphe amuri n. sp. Chatterton et al. 2006
rare category
Trilobita - Proetida - Proetidae
Gerastos tuberculatus (Barrande 1846)
common category
misspelled Gerastos tuberculatus merocensis
    = Gerastos marocensis Chatterton et al. 2006
Wagner 2020
Gerastos tuberculatus marocensis
"Sculptoproetus" haasi Alberti 1971
rare category
"Sculptoproetus" hassi
Timsaloproetus dibbanus n. sp. Gibb and Chatterton 2007
Gibb and Chatterton 2007
Diademaproetus praecursor (Alberti 1969)
common category
"Sculptoproetus" informal sp. A
occasional category
Trilobita - Proetida - Otarionidae
Cyphaspis eberhardiei n. sp. Chatterton et al. 2006
occasional category
Cyphaspis agayuara n. sp. Chatterton et al. 2006
occasional category
Cyphaspis hamidi n. sp. Chatterton et al. 2006
rare category
Trilobita - Phacopida - Homalonotidae
Parahomalonotus calvus Chatterton et al. 2006
common category
Trilobita - Phacopida - Phacopidae
Phacops smoothops n. sp. Chatterton et al. 2006
common category
Phacops granulops n. sp. Chatterton et al. 2006
common category
Trilobita - Phacopida - Acastidae
Walliserops trifurcatus Morzadec 2001
occasional category
Walliserops hammii n. sp. Chatterton et al. 2006
rare-occasional category
Walliserops tridens n. sp. Chatterton et al. 2006
rare category
Psychopyge praestans Morzadec 2001
occasional category
Psychopyge hammerorum n. sp. Chatterton et al. 2006
rare category
Acastoides zguilmensis n. sp. Chatterton et al. 2006
common category
Coltraneia effelesa n. sp. Chatterton et al. 2006
rare category
Hollardops mesocristata (Le Maitre 1952)
common category
see common names

Geography
Country:Morocco
Coordinates: 29.7° North, 6.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:51.6° South, 20.5° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Devonian Epoch: Early Devonian
Stage: Emsian 10 m.y. bin: Devonian 2
Key time interval: Late Emsian
Age range of interval: 398.3 - 393.3 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Timrhanrhart
Local section:Zguilma Local bed:2 m
Local order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:nodular lithified argillaceous,calcareous mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: nodular argillaceous calcareous mudstone
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:142430
Authorizer:W. Kiessling, P. Wagner, M. Hopkins Enterer:M. Krause, M. Hopkins, P. Wagner
Modifier:M. Hopkins Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2013-04-11 19:05:42 Last modified:2017-08-24 14:08:03
Access level:authorizer only Released:2013-07-11 19:05:42
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

60366. B. D. Chatterton, R. A. Fortey, K. D. Brett, S. L. Gibb, and R. C. McKellar. 2006. Trilobites from the upper Lower to Middle Devonian Timrhanrhart Formation, Jbel Gara el Zguilma, southern Morocco. Palaeontolographica Canadiana (25)1-177 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]

Secondary references:

46242 S. Gibb and B. D. E. Chatterton. 2007. Timsaloproetus New Genus (Proetida: Trilobita) and Included Species from Lower and Middle Devonian Strata of Southern Morocco. Journal of Paleontology 81(2):352-367 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Hopkins]
65064 P. Wagner. 2020. Subspecies kluges: a pointless taxonomic database to create species opinions for subspecies that then will be over-ruled and allow subspecies occurrences to be recognized as the subspecies rather than the parent species. [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]