Destombes Loc. 2082. Puente de Tansikht: Tremadoc, Morocco

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Asaphida - Nileidae
Symphysurus sp. Goldfuss 1843
Martin et al. 2016
Rabano 1990
Trilobita - Asaphida - Hungaiidae
Dikelokephalina sp. Broegger 1996
Trilobita - Asaphida - Asaphidae
Trilobita - Asaphida - Remopleurididae
Apatokephalus sp. Brögger 1896
Trilobita - Trinucleida - Alsataspididae
Orometopus sp. Broegger 1898
Trilobita - Olenida - Olenidae
Trilobita - Phacopida - Cheiruridae
Trilobita - Phacopida - Pharostomatidae
Pharostomina sp. Sdzuy 1955
Trilobita - Phacopida - Bavarillidae
Bavarilla sp. Barrande 1868
unclassified
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Ranorthidae
Ranorthis sp. Öpik 1939
Pterobranchia - Dendroidea - Acanthograptidae
Dictyonema sp. Hall 1851
Pterobranchia - Graptoloidea - Anisograptidae
Rhabdinopora sp. Eichwald 1860
Eocrinoidea - Ascocystitida - Rhopalocystidae
Rhopalocystis sp. Ubaghs 1963
Aristocystitidae
Aristocystites sp. Barrande 1887
Rhombifera - Macrocystellidae
Macrocystella bohemica (Barrande 1867)
Lefebvre et al. 2016
see common names

Geography
Country:Morocco
Coordinates: 30.7° North, 6.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:77.8° South, 93.5° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
10 m.y. bin: Cambrian-Ordovician
*Period:Early/Lower Ordovician *Epoch:Late/Upper Tremadoc
*International age/stage:Late/Upper Tremadoc
Key time interval: Tremadoc
Age range of interval: 485 - 477.7 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Lower Fezouata
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified sandy,calcareous "limestone"
Secondary lithology:gray,green lithified "shale"
Lithology description: Calcareous and sandy nodules in grey-green shale
Environment:deep subtidal shelf
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:all microfossils,species names
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Lower Fezouata Fm., Anti-Atlas Mountains, Morocco; Allaire et al. Loc. 1. (2015)
Database number:20998
Authorizer:A. Miller, P. Wagner Enterer:P. Novack-Gottshall, P. Wagner
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2002-06-14 07:20:36 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2002-06-14 07:20:36
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
6398. I. Rabano. 1990. Trilobites del Museo Geominero; I, Platypeltoides magrebiensis n. sp., Asaphina, Nileidae, del Ordovicico inferior del Anti-Atlas central, Marruecos. Boletin Geologico y Minero 101(1):21-27 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Novack-Gottshall]

Secondary references:

67224 B. Lefebvre, N. Allaire, T. E. Guensburg, A. W. Hunter, K. Kouraïss, E. L. O. Martin, E. Nardin, F. Noailles, B. Pittet, C. D. Sumrall, and S. Zamora. 2016. Palaeoecological aspects of the diversification of echinoderms in the Lower Ordovician of central Anti-Atlas, Morocco. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 460:97-121 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]
66455 E. L. O. Martin, M. Vidal, D. Vizcaïno, R. Vaucher, P. Sansjofre, B. Lefebvre, and J. Destombes. 2016. Biostratigraphic and palaeoenvironmental controls on the trilobite associations from the Lower Ordovician Fezouata Shale of the central Anti-Atlas, Morocco. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 460:142-154 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]