PBDB Collection

Destombes Loc. 1675. Jbel Tibasksoutine: Floian, Morocco
collected by Jacques Destombes 1998

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia - Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae

	Redonia sp. Rouault 1851	Babin and Destombes 1990
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Paurorthidae

	Paurorthis tadristensis	Babin and Destombes 1990
Trilobita - Asaphida - Asaphidae

	Asaphidae indet. Burmeister 1843	Babin and Destombes 1990

	Basilicus (Basilicus) destombesi Vidal 1998	Corbacho and Vela 2010
Trilobita - Phacopida - Calymenidae

	Neseuretus cf. antetristani Dean 1966	Babin and Destombes 1990
Pterobranchia - Graptoloidea - Dichograptidae

	Didymograptus cf. indentus	Babin and Destombes 1990
	Didymograptus ex. gr. indentus

	Didymograptus cf. nicholsoni Lapworth 1875	Babin and Destombes 1990

	Azygograptus sp. Nicholson and Lapworth 1875	Babin and Destombes 1990
see common names

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.

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.

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:	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.

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]