Cavities & Caves at Kess-Kess mud mounds (Devonian of Morocco)

Where: Morocco (31.4° N, 4.1° W: paleocoordinates 52.5° S, 27.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Kess-Kess Formation (Saheb el Rhassel Group), Emsian (407.6 - 393.3 Ma)

• -Its age is similar of Polygnathus inversus conodont zone, late Lochkovian (Early Devonian).

•- It occur within the Emsian Kess-Kess mud mounds

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified limestone

• The material collected represent cryptic and/or vent biota. The assemblage is nearly monospecific. Such a low diversity was also found in other groups inhabiting the cryptic environments within Kess-Kess mud mounds.
• This limestone represents inter-mound carbonates.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. Halamski and A. Balinski. 2018. Early Dalejan (Emsian) brachiopods from Hamar Laghdad (eastern Anti-Atlas, Morocco). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 290(1-3):127-152 [W. Kiessling/A. EL Manharawy/A. EL Manharawy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 208097: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Ahmed EL Manharawy on 19.03.2020

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Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Septatrypidae
Septatrypa tumulorum
Septatrypa tumulorum
One is a holotype (complete articulated shell) and 123 paratypes (123 subcomplete articulated shells)
 Atrypida - Carinatinidae
Carinatina sp.
Carinatina sp.
Incomplete articulated shell from Mound 1.