Journal Articles Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen Year : 2018

Trilobites from the Red Fauna (latest Emsian, Devonian) of Hamar Laghdad, Morocco and their biodiversity.

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Trilobites are widespread in Early Devonian deposits of north Gondwana; some of the most emblematic ones were collected from the famous latest Emsian (Early Devonian) mudmound locality Hamar Laghdad in south-eastern Morocco. This locality is famous for its trilobites, especially for the conspicuous red-coloured remains of phacopid trilobites with often greenish eyes. Here, we present a taxonomic revision of the previously described trilobites from the so-called Red Fauna of Hamar Laghdad. We introduce the new taxa Harpes hamarlaghdadensis n. sp. and Morocops davidbrutoni n. sp. Phacopids dominate the trilobite assemblage from the Red Cliff at Hamar Laghdad in terms of the number of specimens (represented by Morocops) as a whole. Additionally, we focus on the description of trilobite diversity of this interval compared to Algerian assemblages.
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hal-02056544 , version 1 (04-03-2019)

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Catherine Crônier, Morgane Oudot, Christian Klug, Kenneth de Baets. Trilobites from the Red Fauna (latest Emsian, Devonian) of Hamar Laghdad, Morocco and their biodiversity.. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen, 2018, 290 (1), pp.241-276. ⟨10.1127/njgpa/2018/0781⟩. ⟨hal-02056544⟩
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