OT3 [Oued Tidzi Fm]: Early/Lower Albian, Morocco

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Belemnitida - Belemnopseidae
Neohibolites sp. Stolley 1911
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
Uhligella sp.
"sp. juv." - originally entered as "Uhligella sp. juv."
Beudanticeras dupinianum (d'Orbigny 1841)
recombined as Roberticeras dupinianum
"dupinianum var. africana" - originally entered as "Beudanticeras dupinianum var. africana"
Zuercherella sp. Casey 1954
"sp. juv." - originally entered as "Zuercherella sp. juv."
Valdedorsella akuschaensis (Anthula 1899)
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Protetragonitidae
Protetragonites sp. Hyatt 1900
"sp. juv." - originally entered as "Protetragonites sp. juv."
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Mojsisovicsiidae
Oxytropidoceras roissyanum
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Acanthohoplitidae
ex gr. Hypacanthoplites jacobi
originally entered as "Hypacanthoplites gr. jacobi"
Hypacanthoplites sp. Spath 1923
"sp. juv." - originally entered as "Hypacanthoplites sp. juv."
see common names

Geography
Country:Morocco State/province:Western High Atlas
Coordinates: 31.2° North, 7.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:21.0° North, 4.6° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Stage:Albian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 4
*Epoch:Gallic
*International age/stage:Albian - Aptian
Key time interval:Early/Lower Albian
Age range of interval:113.00000 - 109.90000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Oued Tidzi
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified dolomite
Secondary lithology: lime mudstone
Environment:marine indet.
Geology comments: beds of marly limestone intercalated with sandy dolomites
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:2072
Authorizer:M. Patzkowsky Enterer:K. Layou
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-06-21 11:28:40 Last modified:2019-04-25 11:45:54
Access level:the public Released:1999-06-21 11:28:40
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

57. J. Rey, J. Canerot, B. Peybernes, K. Tal-Eddine, and J.-P. Thieuloy. 1988. Lithostratigraphy, biostratigraphy and sedimentary dynamics of the Lower Cretaceous deposits on the northern side of the western High Atlas (Morocco). Cretaceous Research 9(2):141-158 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou/A. Clement]