Destombes Loc. 1540. SW of the Jbel Tijakhet (Tafilalt) near Ouzina village (Ordovician of Morocco)

Where: Morocco (31.4° N, 4.2° W: paleocoordinates 75.2° S, 105.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Eremochitina baculata other zone, Middle Member (Upper Fezouata Formation), Floian (477.7 - 470.0 Ma)

• Early Arenig

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, green, yellow, argillaceous shale and lithified limestone

• Predominantly shaly yellow-green argillites

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. J. Horný. 1997. Ordovician Tergomya and Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Anti-Atlas (Morocco). Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae, Series B - Historia Naturalis 53(3-4):37-78 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 56600: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 21.11.2005

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Taxonomic list

 Rhombifera - Macrocystellidae
Hyolitha
 Hyolithida - Hyolithidae
 Hyolithida -
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Plectorthidae
Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida -
Thoralispira laevis Thoral 1935 snail
Thoralispira cf. occitana Horný and Vizcaïno 1995 snail
Trilobita
 Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
Ampyx sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Ogyginus sp. Raymond 1912 trilobite