El Koubbat Kou. 200: Maastrichtian, Morocco
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Ostracoda
- Platycopida
- Cytherellidae
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Cytherella informal sp. 3
Jones 1849
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Ostracoda
- Podocopida
- Cytherideidae
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Clithrocytheridea senegali
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | Morocco |
Coordinates: | 33.1° North, 5.3° West (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 24.6° North, 5.8° West |
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
Stage: | Maastrichtian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 8 |
Key time interval: | Maastrichtian | ||
Age range of interval: | 72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Irbzer | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: "Maastrichtien" instead of Paleocene, as previously thought |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | poorly lithified marl |
Environment: | shallow subtidal indet. |
Geology comments: "infralittoral conditions are developed in a waved environment evolving into a paralic inner domain eventually subject to freshening" |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | microfossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Collection method comments: Paul-Sabatier University collection | |
Taxonomic list comments:a list of forams from this unit is given but not broken down by bed |
Metadata
Database number: | 94080 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy | Research group: | micropaleontology |
Created: | 2010-02-08 21:30:12 | Last modified: | 2010-02-08 23:30:12 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2010-02-08 21:30:12 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
31954. | B. Andreu and G. Tronchetti. 1994. Ostracodes et foraminifères du Crétace supérieur du synclinal d'El Koubbat, moyen Atlas, Maroc. Geobios 29(1):45-71 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |