Shale in Touchchent Syncline North of Ziar (Probable Gedinne Part) (Devonian of Morocco)

Where: Morocco (33.1° N, 5.7° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 36.2° S, 10.4° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Lochkovian (419.2 - 410.8 Ma)

• Collections here represent a stratigraphic succession collected by Willefert (1963) and divided by Berry and Boucot into groups of beds of probable similar age.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shale

• Some 500km N of Pridoli shoreline, according to paleogeographic map of ref. 7455.
• "shale"

Primary reference: W. B. N. Berry and A. J. Boucot. 1973. Correlation of the African Silurian rocks. Geological Society of America Special Paper 147:1-83 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 27452: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 06.12.2002

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Taxonomic list

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Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Cryptograptidae
? Linograptus posthumus, ? Abiesgraptus tenuiramosus
? Linograptus posthumus graptolite
"Abiesgraptus tenuiramosus or cf. Linograptus posthumus"
? Abiesgraptus tenuiramosus graptolite
"Abiesgraptus tenuiramosus or cf. Linograptus posthumus"
 Graptoloidea - Monograptidae
Monograptus hercynicus, Monograptus cf. uniformis
Monograptus cf. uniformis Pribyl 1940 graptolite
"uniformis or praehercynichus