Jbel El Atrous II 16 (Devonian of Morocco)

Where: Morocco (31.0° N, 4.1° W: paleocoordinates 40.0° S, 11.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: MN3 conodont zone, Frasnian (382.7 - 372.2 Ma)

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Collected by Bultynck, Hollard

Collection methods: bulk, acetic

• the collection is kept at the Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences in Brussels

Primary reference: M. Bensaid, P. Bultynck, P. Sartenaer, O. H. Walliser, and W. Ziegler. 1985. The Givetian-Frasnian boundary in pre-Sahara Morocco. Courier Forschungs-Institut Senckenberg 75:287-300 [S. Gouwy/S. Gouwy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 153036: authorized by Sofie Gouwy, entered by Sofie Gouwy on 05.12.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Conodonta
 Ozarkodinida - Palmatolepidae
"Polygnathus asymmetricus" = Mesotaxis asymmetrica
"Polygnathus asymmetricus" = Mesotaxis asymmetrica Bischoff and Ziegler 1957 conodont
 Ozarkodinida - Polygnathidae
Ancyrodella rotundiloba Bryant 1921 conodont