Anti-Atlas Mountains: Berounian, Morocco
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Diploporita
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Destombesia sp.
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Rhombifera
- Echinosphaeritidae
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Echinosphaerites sp.
Wahlenberg 1818
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Aristocystitidae
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Maghrebocystis sp.
Chauvel
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Edrioasteroidea
- Hemicystitidae
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Hemicystites sp.
Hall 1852
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Rhynchonellata
- Orthida
- Heterorthidae
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Heterorthis sp.
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Rhynchonellata
- Orthida
- Dalmanellidae
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Howellites sp.
(Bancroft 1945)
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original and current combination Resserella (Howellites) | |||||||
Rhynchonellata
- Orthida
- Draboviidae
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Drabovia sp.
Havlicek 1950
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Rhynchonellata
- Rhynchonellida
- Trigonirhynchiidae
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Rostricellula sp.
Ulrich and Cooper 1942
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Strophomenata
- Strophomenida
- Rafinesquinidae
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Kiaeromena sp.
Spjeldnaes 1957
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Strophomenata
- Strophomenida
- Aegiromenidae
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Aegiromena sp.
Havlícek 1961
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Strophomenata
- Orthotetida
- Triplesiidae
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Cliftonia sp.
Foerste 1909
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Trilobita
- Phacopida
- Cheiruridae
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Actinopeltis sp.
Hawle and Corda 1847
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Trilobita
- Phacopida
- Acastidae
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Kloucekia sp.
Delo 1935
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Trilobita
- Phacopida
- Dalmanitidae
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Eudolatites sp.
Delo 1935
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Trilobita
- Phacopida
- Calymenidae
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Flexicalymene sp.
Shirley 1936
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Prionocheilus sp.
Rouault 1847
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Trilobita
- Phacopida
- Homalonotidae
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Calymenella sp.
Bergeron 1890
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Trilobita
- Trinucleida
- Trinucleidae
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Cryptolithus sp.
Green 1832
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | Morocco | County: | Taroudannt |
Coordinates: | 30.0° North, 8.5° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 84.4° South, 70.7° East |
Time
Period: | Ordovician | Epoch: | Late/Upper Ordovician |
10 m.y. bin: | Ordovician 4-5 | ||
*Period: | Late/Upper Ordovician | *Epoch: | Late/Upper Caradoc | *Local age/stage: | Berounian |
Key time interval: | Berounian | ||
Age range of interval: | 458.50000 - 449.70000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Geological group: | Ktaoua | Formation: | Lower Ktaoua | ||
Stratigraphic resolution: | member | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Unknown or unnamed member of this formation, although possibly just a local section |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | lithified sandstone |
Lithology description: sandstone | |
Environment: | coastal indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes: | all microfossils,some macrofossils,species names |
Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Metadata
Also known as: | Ktaoua Grp, Unknown Mbr, Ktaoua Fm., Anti-Atlas Mountains, Morocco | ||
Database number: | 21001 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Miller | Enterer: | P. Novack-Gottshall |
Modifier: | P. Wagner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2002-06-14 07:34:30 | Last modified: | 2018-05-19 20:46:13 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-06-14 07:34:30 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
6377. | J. Destombes. 1971. L'ordovicien au Maroc; essai de synthese stratigraphique. Mémoires du Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières 73:237-263 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Wagner] |