• journal_title：Journal of Paleontology
• Contributor：Pedro Cózar ; Ismail Said ; Ian D. Somerville ; Daniel Vachard ; Paula Medina-Varea ; Sergio Rodríguez ; Mostafa Berkhli
• Publisher：Paleontological Society
• Date：2011-
• Format：text/html
• Language：en
• Identifier：10.1666/10-158.1
• journal_abbrev：Journal of Paleontology
• issn：0022-3360
• volume：85
• issue：6
• firstpage：1105
• section：ARTICLES

d="p-1">The Carboniferous succession in Adarouch (Central Morocco, north of the Atlas Transform Fault) contains thick carbonate beds including upper Visean, Serpukhovian and basal Bashkirian rocks. Foraminifers enable precise recognition of the Visean/Serpukhovian (V/S), early/late Serpukhovian (eS/lS) and Serpukhovian/Bashkirian (S/B) boundaries. d-content genus-species" id="named-content-1">Insolentitheca horrida, d-content genus-species" id="named-content-2">Loeblichia ukrainica, “d-content genus-species" id="named-content-3">Millerella” spp. and d-content genus-species" id="named-content-4">Endostaffella? sp. 2 are regarded as regionally useful indices to the V/S boundary, whereas d-content genus-species" id="named-content-5">Eostaffellina spp., d-content genus-species" id="named-content-6">Eostaffella pseudostruvei and some evolved species of d-content genus-species" id="named-content-7">Archaediscus exhibit greater reliability for worldwide correlation of this level. Similarly, the eS/lS boundary is marked locally by d-content genus-species" id="named-content-8">Brenckleina rugosa, d-content genus-species" id="named-content-9">Eosigmoilina sp., and d-content genus-species" id="named-content-10">Monotaxinoides spp. and globally by d-content genus-species" id="named-content-11">Loeblichia minima, d-content genus-species" id="named-content-12">Bradyina cribrostomata, d-content genus-species" id="named-content-13">Plectostaffella spp., d-content genus-species" id="named-content-14">Eostaffellina “d-content genus-species" id="named-content-15">protvae” and “d-content genus-species" id="named-content-16">Turrispiroides”, and the S/B boundary is marked locally by d-content genus-species" id="named-content-17">Globivalulina bulloides and globally by d-content genus-species" id="named-content-18">Seminovella elegantula, and d-content genus-species" id="named-content-19">Novella?. Occurrences of these taxa in Morocco allow correlations with the Moscow Basin, the Urals, the Donetz Basin and North America. The Moroccan assemblages share few taxa in common with Saharan basins south of the Atlas Transform Fault. Correlations with western European basins are difficult because of the paucity in the latter of foraminiferal-bearing carbonate strata.