PBDB Collection

Butte 760, Ait Out Amar (Devonian of Morocco)

Where: Morocco (31.0° N, 4.9° W: paleocoordinates 44.8° S, 16.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• The entire assemblage was collected loose from hypoxic shales. It is probably a mixture of several levels. The majority of specimens probably came from the Taouzites taouzensis Zone (MD III-D) but with an admixture of some specimens from the Synpharciceras clavilobum and Petteroceras errans Zones (MD III-C and III-E).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with hematite, replaced with limonite

Reposited in the MfN

Primary reference: J. Bockwinkel, R. T. Becker, and V. Ebbighausen. 2015. Late Givetian ammonoids from Ait Ou Amar (northern Maider, Anti-Atlas, southeastern Morocco). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 278:123-158 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 189420: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 18.10.2017

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
Goniatitida - Tornoceratidae	Epitornoceras mithracoides, Nebechoceras excentricum, Phoenixites lenticulus Epitornoceras mithracoides Frech 1902 ammonite Nebechoceras excentricum Bockwinkel et al. 2013 ammonite Phoenixites lenticulus Bockwinkel et al. 2013 ammonite
Agoniatitida - Taouzitidae	Taouzites taouzensis, Darkaoceras velox, Mzerrebites amarensis n. sp. Taouzites taouzensis Termier and Termier 1950 ammonite Darkaoceras velox Bockwinkel et al. 2013 ammonite Mzerrebites amarensis n. sp. Bockwinkel et al. 2015 ammonite
Agoniatitida - Acanthoclymeniidae	Pseudoprobeloceras sp., Pseudoprobeloceras praecox, Pseudoprobeloceras pernai, Pseudoprobeloceras cf. pernai Pseudoprobeloceras sp. Bensaïd 1974 ammonite Pseudoprobeloceras praecox Bockwinkel et al. 2013 ammonite Pseudoprobeloceras pernai Wedekind 1918 ammonite Pseudoprobeloceras cf. pernai Wedekind 1918 ammonite
Agoniatitida - Petteroceratidae	Petteroceras errans, Petteroceras angustum n. sp. Petteroceras errans Petter 1959 ammonite Petteroceras angustum n. sp. Bockwinkel et al. 2015 ammonite
Agoniatitida - Pharciceratidae	Pluripharciceras orbis, Stenopharciceras progressum, Synpharciceras sp., Synpharciceras clavilobum, Synpharciceras frequens, Extropharciceras sp., Extropharciceras gentile n. sp., Extropharciceras arenicum, Extropharciceras applanatum, Extropharciceras serum n. sp., Pharciceras sp., ? Pharciceras "n. sp.", Pharciceras pargai, Pharciceras cf. pargai, Pharciceras fornix, Pharciceras aff. fornix, Pharciceras cf. tridens, Pharciceras lateseptatum Pluripharciceras orbis Bockwinkel et al. 2013 ammonite Stenopharciceras progressum Bockwinkel et al. 2013 ammonite Synpharciceras sp. Schindewolf 1940 ammonite Synpharciceras clavilobum Sandberger and Sandberger 1850 ammonite Synpharciceras frequens Bockwinkel et al. 2013 ammonite Extropharciceras sp. Bockwinkel et al. 2009 ammonite Extropharciceras gentile n. sp. Bockwinkel et al. 2015 ammonite Extropharciceras arenicum Petter 1959 ammonite Extropharciceras applanatum Bensaid 1974 ammonite Extropharciceras serum n. sp. Bockwinkel et al. 2015 ammonite Pharciceras sp. Hyatt 1884 ammonite ? Pharciceras "n. sp." Hyatt 1884 ammonite Pharciceras pargai Montesinos and Henn 1986 ammonite Pharciceras cf. pargai Montesinos and Henn 1986 ammonite Pharciceras fornix Bockwinkel et al. 2013 ammonite Pharciceras aff. fornix Bockwinkel et al. 2013 ammonite Pharciceras cf. tridens Sandberger and Sandberger 1850 ammonite Pharciceras lateseptatum Frech 1902 ammonite