Bou-Maiz (El Kachla), Tafilalt region, Tamaghrout Fm (Silurian of Morocco)

Where: Morocco (31.1° N, 4.3° W: paleocoordinates 76.2° S, 36.8° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Tamaghrout Formation, Wenlock (433.4 - 427.4 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; limestone

• thick basal limestone bed; finely crystalline ferruginous limestone

Size class: microfossils

Primary reference: P. Männik, D. K. Loydell, and S. Lubeseder. 2010. Sheinwoodian (Silurian) conodonts and graptolites from NE Anti-Atlas, Morocco. Lethaia 44:410-416 [E. Jarochowska/S. Haegele/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 185970: authorized by Emilia Jarochowska, entered by Sarah Haegele on 01.06.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Monograptidae
Monograptus priodon Bronn 1835 graptolite
Conodonta
 Ozarkodinida - Spathognathodontodae
Wurmiella excavata Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont
 Prioniodontida -
Pseudooneotodus beckmanni Bischoff and Sannemann 1958 conodont
 Prioniodontida - Balognathidae
Pterospathodus pennatus Walliser 1964 conodont
Pterospathodus pennatus procerus
 Prioniodontida -
? Oulodus sp. Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont
 Belodellida - Dapsilodontidae
Dapsilodus obliquicostatus Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont