Also known as Jovellania limestone succession. - not to confuse with "Jovellania limestone" of Bultynck and Walliser (2000)
Where: Morocco (30.9° N, 4.1° W: paleocoordinates 64.4° S, 30.6° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pedavis pesavis conodont zone, Lochkovian (419.2 - 410.8 Ma)
• Approximately 40 m above Scyphocrinites limestone. The bed represents the pesavis Bioevent.
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, nodular limestone and poorly lithified claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: recrystallized, original aragonite, replaced with calcite
Collected by Kröger in 2007; reposited in the MfN
Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,
Primary reference: B. Kröger. 2008. Nautiloids before and during the ammonoid origin in a Siluro–Devonian section of the Tafilalt (Morocco). Special Papers in Palaeontology 79:1-110 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 91612: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 06.10.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Parakionoceras originale Barrande 1868 | |
Hemicosmorthoceras semimbricatum Gnoli 1982 | |
Bivalvia | |
Cheiopteria sp. Pojeta et al. 1976 oyster |