Destombes Loc. 1236. Jbel Bou Legroun (western Tafilalt) 596 x 86: Oretanian, Morocco

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Linguliformes informal indet.
Gutiérrez-Marco et al. 2003
Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Tropidodiscidae
Tropidodiscus pusillus (Perner 1903)
recombined as Peruniscus pusillus
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Lesueurillidae
Lesueurilla prima (Perner 1903)
Hyolithida
Pauxillites sp.
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Euorthisinidae
Euorthisina minor
Gutiérrez-Marco et al. 2003
Trilobita - Asaphida - Asaphidae
Asaphidae sp. Burmeister 1843
Gutiérrez-Marco et al. 2003
Trilobita - Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Illaenidae sp. Hawle and Corda 1847
Gutiérrez-Marco et al. 2003
Trilobita - Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
Ormathops clariondi
Trilobita - Phacopida - Homalonotidae
Colpocoryphe sp. Novak and Perner 1918
see common names

Geography
Country:Morocco
Coordinates: 31.5° North, 4.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:79.0° South, 99.5° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Middle Ordovician
10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 2-3
Key time interval:Oretanian
Age range of interval:468.00000 - 459.70000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Tachilla
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "shale"
Secondary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: shaly, micaceous argillites and rare sandstone beds. Typiccaly with bioturbation and presence of frequenct beds with fossiliferous nodules.
Environment:carbonate indet.
Glacial or sequence phase:transgressive
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:56178
Authorizer:P. Wagner Enterer:P. Wagner
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2005-11-14 21:08:27 Last modified:2018-07-28 10:56:51
Access level:the public Released:2005-11-14 21:08:27
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

13138. R. J. Horný. 1997. Ordovician Tergomya and Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Anti-Atlas (Morocco). Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae, Series B - Historia Naturalis 53(3-4):37-78 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]

Secondary references:

51452 J. C. Gutiérrez-Marco, J. Destombes, I. Rábano, G. F. Aceñolaza, G. N. Sarmiento and M. San José. 2003. El Ordovícico Medio del Anti-Atlas marroquí: paleobiodiversidad, actualización bioestratigráfica y correlación. Geobios 36(2):151-177 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]