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    The Fezouata Formation or Fezouata Shale is a geological formation in Morocco which dates to the Early Ordovician. It was deposited in a marine environment...
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    echinoderms are found in the Fillmore Formation in Utah, USA, Fezouata Formation in Anti-Atlas, Morocco, and Saint-Chinian Formation in Montagne Noire, France. Nektaspida...
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    allows researchers to establish the taxonomic affinity. Body plan Fezouata Formation, a fossil site in Morocco that helped bridge the gap of the Cambrian-Ordovician...
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    Morocco and the area under Spanish rule. The valley contains the Fezouata formations, which are Burgess shale-type deposits dating to the Lower Ordovician...
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    the genus are also known from the Ordovician Fezouata Formation of Morocco and Bøggild Fjord Formation in Greenland. An observation published in 2019...
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    Aegirocassis (category Fezouata Formation fossils)
    that lived 480 million years ago during the early Ordovician in the Fezouata Formation of Morocco. It is known by a single species, Aegirocassis benmoulai...
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    Coalbrookdale Formation, England, Silurian (Wenlock) Vachonisia Hunsrück Slate, Germany, Lower Devonian (Emsian) Enosiaspis Fezouata Formation, Morocco, Early...
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  • dendroid graptolite synrhabdosomes (Calyxdendrum) from the Early Ordovician Fezouata biota of Morocco". Geologica Acta. 22. doi:10.1344/GeologicaActa2024.22...
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    episodically. A few taxa experimented with different approaches to scale formation; some were only very weakly calcified and may have mainly been organic...
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    Ogyginus (category Fezouata Formation fossils)
    Ogyginus is an extinct genus of asaphid trilobites that lived during the Ordovician period. Commonly found in Wales. The type specimen was first described...
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    shales of China; the Wheeler Shale in Utah; and the Lower Ordovician Fezouata formation. It was first described in 1920 by Charles Doolittle Walcott. Choia...
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    Pseudoangustidontus (category Fezouata Formation fossils)
    determine which species to belong to. This animal is only known from the Fezouata Formation, a fossil site in Morocco that is of Lagerstätte status, meaning that...
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  • Anacheirurus (category Fezouata Formation fossils)
    Anacheirurus is a genus of trilobites. It was described by Reed in 1896, as a new genus for the species Cheirurus frederici, and was originally described...
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    the Walcott Quarry, Marble Canyon, Stephen Formation, Tulip beds, Stanley Glacier and the Cathedral Formation. With each site occupying a varying depth...
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    indeterminate species is also known from the Ordovician (Floian) Fezouata Formation in Morocco. It is a member of Mollisoniida, alongside close relatives...
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    members of this subfamily are restricted to the Lower Ordovician-aged Fezouata Formation of Morocco. Currently only two genera are included: Aegirocassis and...
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  • (2024) describe fossil material of Leptoplastides salteri from the Fezouata Formation (Morocco), extending known range of this species from Avalonia into...
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    Plumulites (category Fezouata Formation fossils)
    australis Talent, 1963 P. bengtsoni Vinther, Van Roy & Briggs, 2008 Fezouata Formation, Morocco, Upper Tremadocian (Lower Ordovician) P. bohemicus Barrande...
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  • Airograptus betieri Strophomenata Actinomena orta ?Strophomena barbieri Fezouata Formation Ordovician radiation Zaouïa Schists at Mindat.org Zaouïa of Stita...
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    Bavarilla (category Fezouata Formation fossils)
    Bavarilla is an extinct genus of trilobites. The species Bavarilla hofensis as bavarilla was found in the 19th century near Hof (Saale) and lived from...
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    Megistaspis (category Fezouata Formation fossils)
    Megistaspis is a genus of trilobites in the order Asaphida and family Asaphidae. They lived in the Ordovician period (478-449 million years ago), from...
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    Santana, & Agua Nueva formations and the Tanis Fossil Site, the Eocene Fur Formation, Green River Formation, Messel Formation & Monte Bolca, the Miocene...
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    Placoparia (category Fezouata Formation fossils)
    Placoparia is a genus of trilobites of average size (up to 6 cm) that lived during the late Lower to the early Upper Ordovician on the paleocontinents...
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    sponge known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale and the Ordovician Fezouata formation. It is named after Mount St. Piran, a mountain situated in the Bow...
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    Cambrian Burgess Shale, Ogygopsis Shale, Puncoviscana Formation and the Early Ordovician Fezouata Formation. 142 specimens of Selkirkia are known from the Greater...
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    Selenopeltis (category Fezouata Formation fossils)
    Selenopeltis (/sɛliːnoʊpɛltɪs/) is an extinct genus of odontopleurid trilobites in the family Odontopleuridae. Species in the genus Selenopeltis can reach...
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  • Foulonia (category Fezouata Formation fossils)
    Foulonia is a genus of trilobites in the order Phacopida, that existed during the lower Ordovician in what is now France. It was described by Pribyl and...
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    Ampyx (trilobite) (category Fezouata Formation fossils)
    Ordovician Acoite, Suri, Ponon-Trehue, Sepulturas and San Juan Formations, Argentina Sella Formation, Bolivia Australia Canada (British Columbia, Newfoundland...
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    Hurdia hospes in some papers), and unnamed fossil from Ordovician Fezouata Formation could represent species of Hurdia as well. Hurdia was named in 1912...
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    Colpocoryphe (category Fezouata Formation fossils)
    Gees, Gerolstein Hunsrück Slate Jince Formation Latham Shale Llandeilo Group Maotianshan Shales Silica Shale Formation Takaka Terrane Walcott–Rust quarry...
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