Earliest Givetian limestone/marl at Jebel Amelane, N. Tafilalt (Devonian of Morocco)

Where: Morocco (31.3° N, 4.3° W: paleocoordinates 44.2° S, 16.1° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• roughly timorensis conodont zone

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone

• thin-bedded limestones, thick-bedded limestones, and marl

Primary reference: C. Klug. 2002. Quantitative stratigraphy and taxonomy of late Emsian and Eifelian ammonoids of the eastern Anti-Atlas (Morocco). Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 238:1-109 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 38758: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 03.05.2004

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Taxonomic list

• Monograph covers ammonoids only.
Cephalopoda
 Agoniatitida - Agoniatitidae
"Agoniatites vanuxemi" = Agoniatites expansus
"Agoniatites vanuxemi" = Agoniatites expansus Vanuxem 1842 ammonite