Destombes Loc. 0020. Bou Rbia-Sidi Touhama (W. of Zagora) 418.1 x 343.75 (Ordovician of Morocco)

Also known as 20: Cerca de la pista Bou Rbia-Sidi Touhama por el Oued el-Guettara, en la región deAït Isi Oul al SO de Zagora

Where: Morocco (30.1° N, 6.4° W: paleocoordinates 81.2° S, 97.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Linochitina pissotensis graptolite zone, Bou Zeroual Formation (First Bani Group), Darriwilian (467.3 - 458.4 Ma)

• Dobrotiva; upper part of formation.Mitad superior de la Fm. Bou-Zeroual, 115 m por encima de su base (horizonte atribuido a la “Fm. Kissane” por Havlícˇek en 1971, y a la Fm.Taddrist por Destombes en 1972). Havlícˇek (1971), Destombes (1972, 1983a, 1988), Marek (1983), Chauvel (1978), Horný (1997b).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. C. Gutiérrez-Marco, J. Destombes, I. Rábano, G. F. Aceñolaza, G. N. Sarmiento and M. San José. 2003. El Ordovícico Medio del Anti-Atlas marroquí: paleobiodiversidad, actualización bioestratigráfica y correlación. Geobios 36(2):151-177 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 156996: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 03.06.2014

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Taxonomic list

 Sphaeronitida - Aristocystitidae
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
 Phacopida - Homalonotidae
Plaesiacomia sp. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite
Colpocoryphe sp. Novak and Perner 1918 trilobite
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Neseuretus sp. Hicks 1873 trilobite
Ostracoda
  - Sigmoopsidae
Hyolitha
 Hyolithida - Hyolithidae
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Plectorthidae
 Orthida - Orthidae
Tergomya
 Cyrtonellida - Cyrtolitidae
Quasisinuites rapax Horný 1997