Taba, Tawrirt Oukanakay Region (Cretaceous of Morocco)

Where: Morocco (30.8° N, 8.5° W: paleocoordinates 24.2° N, 3.0° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Taboulouart Formation, Barremian (129.4 - 125.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified, argillaceous limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: D. B. Blake and R. Reboul. 2011. A new asteroid (Echinodermata) faunule from the Early Cretaceous (Barremian) of Morocco. Journal of Paleontology 85(6):1021-1034 [L. Villier/L. Villier]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 124947: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 01.03.2012

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Taxonomic list

Asteroidea
 Forcipulatida - Zoroasteridae
Zoroasteridae indet. Sladen 1889 sea star
 Paxillosida -
Paxillosida indet. Perrier 1884 sea star
 Paxillosida - Astropectinidae
"Betelgeusia orientalis" = Coulonia platyspina, Dipsacaster africanus
"Betelgeusia orientalis" = Coulonia platyspina Hess and Blake 1995 sea star
Dipsacaster africanus Blake and Reboul 2011 sea star
 Valvatida - Goniasteridae
Marocaster coronatus Blake and Reboul 2011 sea star