Brachiopods from the Rheic Ocean of Morocco

60 species of Middle Devonian brachiopods are described from Jbel Issoumour (Anti-Atlas, Morocco), an area located in terms of palaeogeography on the southern shore of the Rheic Ocean. Most of them are the same as or similar to those known from the Eifel (Germany) and the Holy Cross Mountains (Poland), areas located in the Devonian on the northern shore of the Rheic Ocean; this is a new argument in the controversy about the width of the Rheic Ocean: given the similarity of the faunas, the Ocean is likely to have been rather narrow. Two new brachiopod species are described: one of them, Prodavidsonia ebbighauseni is named in honour of Volker Ebbighausen, the amateur palaeontologist who assembled the described collection; the other one, Spinatrypa ennigaldinannae, is named in honour of Babylonian princess Ennigaldi-Nanna, curator of the oldest known museum (6th century B.C.).