First Bani Grp, Unknown Fm., Anti-Atlas Mountains, Morocco (Ordovician of Morocco)

Where: Morocco (30.0° N, 8.5° W: paleocoordinates 83.8° S, 80.8° E)

When: First Bani Group, Dobrotivian (459.0 - 457.9 Ma)

• Unknown or unnamed formation

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: foreshore; lithified sandstone

• Sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. Destombes. 1971. L'ordovicien au Maroc; essai de synthese stratigraphique. Mémoires du Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières 73:237-263 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 20999: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 14.06.2002

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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 Sphaeronitida - Aristocystitidae
Aristocystites sp. Barrande 1887
 Sphaeronitida - Sphaeronitidae
Calix sp. Rouault 1851
 Rhombifera - Echinosphaeritidae
Echinosphaerites sp. Wahlenberg 1818
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Plectorthidae
Paterorthis paterina Havlíček 1971
 Orthida - Orthidae
Orthambonites sp. Pander 1830
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Homalonotidae
Eohomalonotus sp. Reed 1918 trilobite
Colpocoryphe sp. Novak and Perner 1918 trilobite
Plaesiacomia sp. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Neseuretus sp. Hicks 1873 trilobite
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
Crozonaspis sp. Henry 1968 trilobite
Zeliszkella sp. Delo 1935 trilobite
Dalmanitina sp. Reed 1905 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Ectillaenus sp. Salter 1867 trilobite
 Asaphida - Cyclopygidae
Degamella sp. Marek 1961 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Trinucleidae
Marrolithus sp. Bancroft 1929 trilobite
 Odontopleurida - Odontopleuridae
Selenopeltis sp. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite