New archaeocyath genus from the early Cambrian of the western Anti-Atlas, Morocco

This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Bakhouch, Asmaa El, Kerner, Adeline, Azizi, Abdelfattah, Debrenne, Françoise, Jalil, Nour-Eddine, Hafid, Ahmid, Hariri, Khadija El (2024): New archaeocyath genus from the early Cambrian of the western Anti-Atlas, Morocco. Geodiversitas 46 (12): 445-455, DOI: 10.5252/geodiversitas2024v46a12, URL: sciencepress.mnhn.fr new archaeocyathan genus had been discovered in the Issafen Formation of the Tata Group, in the western Anti-Atlas of Morocco. It had been identified and assigned to the family Carinacyathi-dae, which was previously known to have existed in Mongolia, Russia and Morocco during the later early Cambrian. This newly described genus and species is named: Fouanoucyathus tafraoutiensis El Bakhouch & Kerner, n. gen., n. sp. This discovery improves significantly our understanding of the morphological evolutionary history among archaeocyaths as well as of the archaeocyath diversification in the western Anti-Atlas of Morocco.