Destombes Loc. 1675. Jbel Tibasksoutine: Floian, Morocco
collected by Jacques Destombes 1998
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Pterobranchia
- Graptoloidea
- Dichograptidae
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Azygograptus sp.
Nicholson and Lapworth 1875
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Babin and Destombes 1990 | |||||||||
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Didymograptus cf. indentus
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Babin and Destombes 1990 | |||||||||
| Didymograptus ex. gr. indentus | ||||||||||
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Didymograptus cf. nicholsoni
Lapworth 1875
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Babin and Destombes 1990 | |||||||||
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Rhynchonellata
- Orthida
- Paurorthidae
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Paurorthis tadristensis
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Babin and Destombes 1990 | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Modiomorphida
- Modiomorphidae
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Redonia sp.
Rouault 1851
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Babin and Destombes 1990 | |||||||||
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Trilobita
- Phacopida
- Calymenidae
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Neseuretus cf. antetristani
Dean 1966
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Babin and Destombes 1990 | |||||||||
| recombined as Pradoella antetristani | ||||||||||
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Trilobita
- Asaphida
- Asaphidae
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Asaphidae indet.
Burmeister 1843
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Babin and Destombes 1990 | |||||||||
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Basilicus (Basilicus) destombesi
Vidal 1998
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Corbacho and Vela 2010 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Morocco | State/province: | Zagora |
| Coordinates: | 30.1° North, 5.8° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 77.1° South, 106.3° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Ordovician | Epoch: | Early/Lower Ordovician |
| Stage: | Floian | 10 m.y. bin: | Ordovician 2 |
| Key time interval: | Floian | Graptolite zone: | Baltograptus jacksoni |
| Age range of interval: | 477.70000 - 470.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Upper Fezouata | ||||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Regional section: | Formation | Regional bed: | 830 m | ||
| Regional order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Middle Arenig. Note: section measurement seems to differ by 100m from section measurements in Martin et al. 2016. Middle to Upper part of Upper Fezouta. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | gray,green argillaceous mudstone |
| Secondary lithology: | concretionary lithified sandy "limestone" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: Dans de argilites gris-vert enserrant des miches de calcaires gréseux contenant: (In greenish grey mudstones enclosing of the sandy limestone concretions ("round loaves" containing:) | |
| Environment: | carbonate indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,concretion,original aragonite,original calcite,original phosphate,original silica,original chitin |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
| Abundance in sediment: | abundant |
| Fragmentation: | frequent |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taphonomic analysis | ||
| Collectors: | Jacques Destombes | Collection dates: | 1998 |
| Taxonomic list comments:PJW: This was a duplicate entry of Destombes Loc. 1687 (coll. 166731). I have merged the species-lists and re-written this collection. | |||
Metadata
| Database number: | 182906 | ||
| Authorizer: | V. Syverson | Enterer: | V. Syverson |
| Modifier: | P. Wagner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2016-11-28 12:50:46 | Last modified: | 2018-09-07 10:44:58 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2016-11-28 12:50:46 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 61018. | M. Vidal. 1998. Le modèle des biofaciès à Trilobites: un test dans l'Ordovicien inférieur de l'Anti-Atlas, Maroc. Comptes-Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Paris, Sciences de la Terre et des planetes 327:327-333 [V. Syverson/V. Syverson/E. Ito] |
Secondary references:
| 60999 | N. Allaire, B. Lefebvre, E. Martin, E. Nardin, and R. Vaucher. 2015. Taphonomy of new Rhopalocystis assemblages in the Lower Ordovician of the Zagora area (Central Anti-Atlas, Morocco). In S. Zamora, I. Rábano (eds.), Progress in Echinoderm Paleobiology, Cuadernos del Museo Geominero 19:21-26 [V. Syverson/V. Syverson] | |
| 6376 | C. Babin and J. Destombes. 1990. Les mollusques bivalves et rostroconches Ordoviciens de l’Anti-Atlas marocain: Intérêt paléogéographique de leur inventaire. Géologie Méditerranéenne 17:243-261 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Novack-Gottshall] | |
| 66465 | J. Corbacho and J. A. Vela. 2010. Giant Trilobites from Lower Ordovician of Morocco. Batalleria 15:3-34 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner] |