Kerrando Gourrama area, Bed 36 (Jurassic of Morocco)

Where: Morocco (32.2° N, 4.3° W: paleocoordinates 27.1° N, 0.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Agoudim Formation, Discites (171.6 - 167.7 Ma)

• Lower member of the Agoudim Fm; Hypertioceras discites zone 'A'

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; gray marl and limestone

• epaisse serie de marnes grises, entrecoupee par de petit bancs calcaires dont le pendage varie de 30 a 40 vers le Nord

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Specimen could be same as in Sadki D. and Almeras Y., 1992 - Le Brachiopods aaleno-bajociens de la region Rich (Haut-Atlas central, Maroc): implications biostratigraphiques et paleoecologiques. Cahiers Inst. Catho. Lyon, ser. Sci., 5: 93-105

Primary reference: D. Sadki. 1994. Proposition de la region de Rich (Haut-Atlas central marocain) comme stratotype auxiliaire submediterranen pour la limite Aalenien Bajocien. Geobios 17:431-440 [M. Aberhan/T. Schossleitner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 141227: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 21.03.2013

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Zeilleriidae
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Otoitidae
Trilobiticeras sp. Buckman 1919 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Hammatoceratidae
"Rhodaniceras prosphues" = Eudmetoceras, Haplopleuroceras subspinatum
"Rhodaniceras prosphues" = Eudmetoceras ammonite
Haplopleuroceras subspinatum Buckman and Buckman 1881 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Sonniniidae
Fontannesia sp. ammonite
Fontannesia montillanensis Linares and Sandoval 1988 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Graphoceratidae
Graphoceras sp., Graphoceras (Ludwigella) limitatum, "Hyperlioceras (Toxolioceras) sp." = Hyperlioceras
Graphoceras (Ludwigella) limitatum Buckman 1902 ammonite
"Hyperlioceras (Toxolioceras) sp." = Hyperlioceras ammonite
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Palaeoneilo sp. Hall and Whitfield 1869 clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Chlamys sp. Röding 1798 scallop
 Pectinida - Limidae
Ctenostreon sp. Eichwald 1862 file clam
 Carditida - Astartidae