Open AccessTournaisian (Early Carboniferous/Mississippian) ammonoids from the Ma'der Basin (Anti‐Atlas, Morocco)
Author(s) -
Ebbighausen Volker,
Bockwinkel Jürgen
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
fossil record
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.694
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1860-1014
pISSN - 1435-1943
DOI - 10.1002/mmng.200700003
Subject(s) - tournaisian , carboniferous , assemblage (archaeology) , biology , geology , paleontology , structural basin
Three succeeding assemblages of Early Tournaisian (Mississippian) ammonoids are described from Fezzou (Ma'der) in the Anti‐Atlas of Morocco; they are, in ascending order, composed of the following genera: (1) Gattendorfia‐Eocanites Assemblage: Acutimitoceras , Costimitoceras , Imitoceras , Kornia , Gattendorfia , Kazakhstania , and Eocanites ; (2) Gattendorfia‐Kahlacanites Assemblage: Acutimitoceras , Hasselbachia , Gattendorfia , Becanites , and Kahlacanites ; and (3) Goniocyclus‐Protocanites Assemblage: Globimitoceras , Imitoceras , Gattendorfia , Goniocyclus , Eocanites , and Protocanites . The following taxa are newly described: Globimitoceras rharrhizense n. sp., Acutimitoceras sarahae n. sp., A. endoserpens n. sp., A. pentaconstrictum n. sp., Costimitoceras aitouamar n. sp., Hasselbachia arca n. sp., Kornia citrus n. gen. n. sp., Gattendorfia lhceni n. sp., and G. gisae n. sp. (© 2007 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)