Destombes Loc. 2082. Puente de Tansikht ( of Morocco)

Also known as Lower Fezouata Fm., Anti-Atlas Mountains, Morocco; Allaire et al. Loc. 1. (2015)

Where: Morocco (30.7° N, 6.2° W: paleocoordinates 74.2° S, 107.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Fezouata Formation, Tremadoc (486.5 - 477.7 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified, sandy, calcareous limestone and lithified, gray, green shale

• Calcareous and sandy nodules in grey-green shale

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 20998: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 14.06.2002, edited by Pete Wagner

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Pterobranchia
 Dendroidea - Acanthograptidae
Dictyonema sp. Hall 1851 graptolite
 Graptoloidea - Anisograptidae
Bryograptus sp. graptolite
Rhabdinopora sp. Eichwald 1860 graptolite
 Sphaeronitida - Aristocystitidae
Aristocystites sp. Barrande 1887
Eocrinoidea
 Ascocystitida - Rhopalocystidae
Rhopalocystis sp. Ubaghs 1963
 Rhombifera - Macrocystellidae
"Macrocystella bohemica" = Macrocystella bohemicus
"Macrocystella bohemica" = Macrocystella bohemicus Barrande 1867
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Ranorthidae
Ranorthis sp. Öpik 1939
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Pharostomatidae
Pharostomina sp. Sdzuy 1955 trilobite
 Phacopida - Bavarillidae
Bavarilla sp. Barrande 1868 trilobite
 Phacopida - Cheiruridae
? Parapilekia cf. olesnaensis Růžička 1935 trilobite
 Asaphida - Nileidae
Symphysurus sp. Goldfuss 1843 trilobite
 Asaphida - Hungaiidae
Dikelokephalina sp. Broegger 1996 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Asaphellus cf. homfrayi Salter 1866 trilobite
 Asaphida - Remopleurididae
Apatokephalus sp. Brögger 1896 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Alsataspididae
Orometopus sp. Broegger 1898 trilobite
 Olenida - Olenidae
"Beltella sp." = Leptoplastides
"Beltella sp." = Leptoplastides Raw 1908 trilobite