Taberhout section, bed TB12: Jamesoni, Morocco

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Coeloceratidae
Miltoceras taguendoufi El Hariri et al. 1996
see common names

Geography
Country:Morocco
Coordinates: 32.3° North, 4.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:26.1° North, 4.5° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Time
Period: Jurassic Epoch: Early Jurassic
Stage: Pliensbachian 10 m.y. bin: Jurassic 2
Key time interval: Jamesoni Ammonoid zone:  Miltoceras sellae
Age range of interval: 192.9 - 184.2 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Local section:Taberhout Local bed:1.8 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphy comments: The layers studied in the present work are interpreted as the transition between the Aberdouz and Ouchbis formations.
Biohorizon Miltoceras taguendouf.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Secondary lithology: lithified marl
Lithology description: An uneven stack of layers ranging from 20 cm to 5 m in thickness, and composed of marls, limestones and calcareous gravity deposits with grains of quartz.
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:197654
Authorizer:A. Kocsis Enterer:L. Mulvey
Modifier:A. Kocsis Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2018-11-20 07:26:16 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:authorizer only Released:2020-11-20 07:26:16
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
67387. S. Sarih, J. Dommergues, K. E. Hariri, J. Garcia, and A. Quiquerez. 2007. Pseudoskirroceras, a remarkable but poorly known Early Pliensbachian Tethyan ammonite genus: New data from the High Atlas (Morocco). Journal of African Earth Sciences 49:90-102 [A. Kocsis/L. Mulvey/P. Wagner]