Hassi Nebech section 2, beds 11b-c (Devonian of Morocco)

Where: Morocco (30.9° N, 3.8° W: paleocoordinates 45.2° S, 17.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Givetian (380.2 - 382.7 Ma)

• Probably Taouzites taouzensis Zone. Two thin layers of grey nodular limestone, poor in macrofauna, separated by ca. 100 cm of dark, greenish-grey shales

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, nodular, gray limestone

• Grey nodular limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with limonite

Reposited in the MfN

Primary reference: J. Bockwinkel, R. T. Becker, and V. Ebbighausen. 2013. Late Givetian ammonoids from Hassi Nebech (Tafilalt Basin, Anti-Atlas, southern Morocco). Fossil Record 16:5-65 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 189349: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 12.10.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Agoniatitida - Pharciceratidae
Pharciceras sp. Hyatt 1884 ammonite