Oretanian section, Tachilla Fm., Anti-Atlas Mts., Morocco: Oretanian, Morocco
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Gompholithes sp.
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Pterobranchia
- Graptoloidea
- Dichograptidae
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Didymograptus sp.
McCoy 1851
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Hyolithida
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Pauxillites sp.
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Hyolithida
- Hyolithidae
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Elegantilites sp.
Marek 1966
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Rhynchonellata
- Orthida
- Euorthisinidae
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Euorthisina sp.
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Bivalvia
- Nuculida
- Praenuculidae
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Praenucula sp.
Pfab 1934
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Bivalvia
- Solemyida
- Ctenodontidae
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Ctenodonta sp.
Salter 1852
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Bivalvia
- Modiomorphida
- Modiomorphidae
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Redonia sp.
Rouault 1851
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Bivalvia
- Coxiconchiidae
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Coxiconcha sp.
Babin 1966
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Ostracoda
- Hollinocopida
- Tetradellidae
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Tetradella sp.
Ulrich 1890
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Trilobita
- Corynexochida
- Illaenidae
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? Dysplanus sp.
Burmeister 1843
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Trilobita
- Phacopida
- Homalonotidae
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Colpocoryphe sp.
Novak and Perner 1918
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Plaesiacomia sp.
Hawle and Corda 1847
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Trilobita
- Phacopida
- Bathycheilidae
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Bathycheilus sp.
Holub 1908
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Trilobita
- Phacopida
- Dalmanitidae
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Ormathops sp.
Delo 1935
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Trilobita
- Phacopida
- Pliomeridae
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Placoparia sp.
Hawle and Corda 1847
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Trilobita
- Asaphida
- Asaphidae
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Ogygiocaris sp.
Angelin 1854
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Geography
| Country: | Morocco |
| Coordinates: | 32.0° North, 4.0° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 78.5° South, 98.0° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Ordovician | Epoch: | Middle Ordovician |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Ordovician 2-3 | ||
| *Period: | Middle Ordovician | *Epoch: | Early/Lower Llanvirn | *Local age/stage: | Oretanian |
| Key time interval: | Oretanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 468.00000 - 459.70000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Tachilla |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | concretionary,shelly/skeletal,gray,green,red or brown lithified argillaceous "shale" |
| Lithology description: Fossiliferous nodules in green-grey to reddish shale with occasional coquinoids and grey, clayey banks | |
| Environment: | offshore |
Taphonomy
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | all microfossils,species names |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:Primarily bivalve taxonomy and biostrat. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 20978 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Miller | Enterer: | P. Novack-Gottshall |
| Modifier: | P. Novack-Gottshall | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2002-06-13 08:57:57 | Last modified: | 2002-06-13 14:10:27 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 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] |