Destombes Loc. 1270. Tizi on Mekhazni (between Rissani and Msissi, Tafilalt) (Ordovician of Morocco)

Where: Morocco (31.2° N, 4.5° W: paleocoordinates 81.5° S, 89.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Tiouririne Member (Lower Ktaoua Formation), Berounian (460.9 - 449.5 Ma)

• Given as Middle Caradoc, which indicates the Middle Tiouririne member.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified shale and lithified limestone

• shaly, micaceous argillites and rare sandstone beds. Typiccaly with bioturbation and presence of frequenct beds with fossiliferous nodules.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. J. HornĂ½. 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 56179: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 14.11.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
Nonorios pater Perner 1903 snail
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Homalonotidae
Calymenella (Calymenella) sp. Bergeron 1890 trilobite
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
Dalmanitina (Dalmanitina) cf. proaeva, "Eudolatites (Banilatites) inflatus" = Eudolatites inflatus
"Eudolatites (Banilatites) inflatus" = Eudolatites inflatus Destombes 1972 trilobite
 Sphaeronitida - Aristocystitidae
Aristocystites sinuosus
Aristocystites bohemicus sinuosus
Aristocystites bohemicus Barrande 1887
Aristocystites bohemicus bohemicus
? Phlyctocystis sp. Chauvel 1966
 Sphaeronitida - Sphaeronitidae
 Rhombifera - Echinosphaeritidae
Diploporita
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Destombesia diedra
Destombesia diedra robusta