Catalog / genus

Gigoutella

The studied Gigoutella mauretanica specimens come from volcanic ash in the Tatelt Formation, Cambrian Series 2, Stage 4, in Morocco's Lemdad Syncline. This locality records the studied fossils, not a global distribution or complete genus range. This navigation entry is not a phylogeny or a complete taxon dossier.

Represented range515–514 Ma

Content packagetrilobites-chelicerates

PBDBtxn:21907

Evidence boundary

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Claim ledger

fossil-range · medium

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Known limits

A missing branch or fossil occurrence does not imply biological absence. Internal nodes are not calibrated divergence estimates.

References

Rapid volcanic ash entombment reveals the 3D anatomy of Cambrian trilobitesEl Albani, A. et al. · 2024 · DOI 10.1126/science.adl4540
Open Tree of Life web servicesOpenTreeOfLife Project
The Paleobiology Database application programming interfacePeters, S.E.; McClennen, M. · 2016 · DOI 10.1017/pab.2015.39
Denormalized occurrence and taxon tables of the Paleobiology DatabaseThe Paleobiology Database Community; Kocsis, Á.T. · 2026 · DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21620933

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