El Koubbat Kou. 175 (Cretaceous of Morocco)

Where: Morocco (33.1° N, 5.3° W: paleocoordinates 24.6° N, 5.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Irbzer Formation, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• "Maastrichtien" instead of Paleocene, as previously thought

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; poorly lithified, yellow marl

• "infralittoral conditions are developed in a waved environment evolving into a paralic inner domain eventually subject to freshening"
• "marines jaunes rapidement remplacés par de grès fins et jaunâtres" (yellow marls [170 and 175] quickly replaced by gray fine and yellowish sandstones [177])

Size class: microfossils

Collection methods: Paul-Sabatier University collection

Primary reference: B. Andreu and G. Tronchetti. 1994. Ostracodes et foraminifères du Crétace supérieur du synclinal d'El Koubbat, moyen Atlas, Maroc. Geobios 29(1):45-71 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 94076: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 08.02.2010

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Taxonomic list

• a list of forams from this unit is given but not broken down by bed
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Ostracoda
 Platycopida - Cytherellidae
Cytherella "sp. 3"
Cytherella "sp. 3" Jones 1849 ostracod
 Podocopida - Cytherideidae
Clithrocytheridea senegali
 Podocopida - Cytherettidae
? Cytheretta koubbatensis n. sp.