Where: Morocco (30.9° N, 4.1° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 33.5° S, 5.6° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Kess-Kess Formation, Pragian (413.0 - 410.6 Ma)
• PJW: This should be Kess-Kess
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified, yellow, carbonaceous limestone and poorly lithified, green 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 91611: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 06.10.2009
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Artiopoda | |
Reedops sp. Richter and Richter 1925 trilobite | |
"Crotalocephalina gibba" = Crotalocephalina gibbus
"Crotalocephalina gibba" = Crotalocephalina gibbus Beyrich 1845 trilobite | |
Cephalopoda | |
Subdoloceras atrouzense Kröger 2008 | |
Spyroceras patronus Barrande 1866
Spyroceras latepatronus Kröger 2008 | |
Ormoceras sp. Stokes 1840 | |
Merocycloceras sp. Ristedt 1968
Tibichoanoceras tibichoanum Kröger 2008 | |
Temperoceras migrans Barrande 1868
Temperoceras aequinudum Kröger 2008 | |
Arthrophyllum vermiculare Termier and Termier 1950 | |
Tafilaltoceras adgoi Kröger 2008 |