Where: Morocco (30.9° N, 4.1° W: paleocoordinates 53.7° S, 27.2° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Zlichovian (409.1 - 391.9 Ma)
• this horizon is identical to Emsian faunule A horizon of Klug et al. 2008
Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; 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 91746: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 19.10.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Cephalopoda | |
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Devonobactrites sp. Shimanskiy 1962
Devonobactrites obliquiseptatum Sandberger and Sandberger 1852 | |
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Orthocycloceras tafilaltense Kröger 2008
Chebbioceras erfoudense Klug et al. 2008
Infundibuloceras brevimira Klug et al. 2008 | |
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Arthrophyllum vermiculare Termier and Termier 1950 | |
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Temperoceras aequinudum Kröger 2008 | |