Destombes Loc. 0273. Hassi Brahim (W of Tata) 240.55 x 302.4 (Ordovician of Morocco)

Also known as Cantil del Jbel Tamgounsa, al O de Kheneg (= Hassi) Brahim. (Cantil the Jbel Tamgounsa at Kheneg O (= Hassi) Brahim)

Where: Guelmim-Es Semara, Morocco (30.1° N, 6.4° W: paleocoordinates 81.2° S, 97.8° E)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Laufeldochitina clavata - Linochitina pissotensis other zone, Bou Zeroual Formation (First Bani Group), Dobrotivian (459.0 - 457.9 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. C. Gutiérrez-Marco, J. Destombes, I. Rábano, G. F. Aceñolaza, G. N. Sarmiento and M. San José. 2003. El Ordovícico Medio del Anti-Atlas marroquí: paleobiodiversidad, actualización bioestratigráfica y correlación. Geobios 36(2):151-177 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 157000: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 03.06.2014

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Phacopida - Homalonotidae
Eohomalonotus sp. Reed 1918 trilobite
 Phacopida - Bathycheilidae
? Bathycheilus sp. Holub 1908 trilobite
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Neseuretus sp. Hicks 1873 trilobite
Ostracoda
 Beyrichicopida - Bolliidae
 Hollinocopida - Tetradellidae
Hyolitha
 Hyolithida -
Bivalvia
 Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Redonia sp. Rouault 1851 clam
Tergomya
 Cyrtonellida - Cyrtolitidae
Quasisinuites rapax n. gen. n. sp.
Quasisinuites rapax n. gen. n. sp. Horný 1997