Where: Morocco (30.5° N, 5.9° W: paleocoordinates 74.1° S, 108.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Lower Member (Fezouata Formation), Tremadocian (485.4 - 477.7 Ma)
• lower part of formation
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified, sandy, calcareous limestone and lithified, gray, green shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,
Primary reference: R. A. Fortey. 2011. The first known complete lichakephalid trilobite, Lower Ordovician of Morocco. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 42:1-7 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 188932: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 21.09.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Lichakephalus stubbsi n. sp.
Lichakephalus stubbsi n. sp. Fortey 2011 trilobite |