Taphonomic pathway of exceptionally preserved fossils in the Lower Ordovician of Morocco

Farid Saleh (1) , Bernard Pittet (1) , Pierre Sansjofre (2) , Pierre Gueriau (3) , Stefan Lalonde (2) , Jean-Philippe Perrillat (1) , Muriel Vidal (2) , Victoire Lucas (2) , Khadija El Hariri (4) , Khaoula Kouraiss (5) , Bertrand Lefebvre

1 LGL-TPE - Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon - Terre, Planètes, Environnement
2 LGO - Laboratoire Géosciences Océan
3 Institute of Earth Sciences [Lausanne]
4 Equipe de recherche E2G
5 Laboratory of Geoscience and Environment

The Fezouata Shale in Morocco is the only Lower Ordovician Lagerstätte to yield a diverse exceptionally preserved marine fauna. Sediments of this formation have yielded soft to lightly

Domaines: Planète et Univers [physics]

Farid Saleh, Bernard Pittet, Pierre Sansjofre, Pierre Gueriau, Stefan Lalonde, et al.. Taphonomic pathway of exceptionally preserved fossils in the Lower Ordovician of Morocco. Geobios, 2020, 60, pp.99 - 115. ⟨10.1016/j.geobios.2020.04.001⟩. ⟨hal-03101247⟩