Where: Morocco (30.5° N, 5.9° W: paleocoordinates 77.3° S, 103.8° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Member (Fezouata Formation), Floian to Floian (477.7 - 467.3 Ma)
• "Lower-Middle Arenig"
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, green siltstone and lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Primary reference: J. P. Botting. 2007. "Cambrian" demosponges in the Ordovician of Morocco: Insights into the early evolutionary history of sponges. Geobios 40:737-748 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 120549: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 16.11.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Demospongiae | |
Pirania auraeum n. sp.
Pirania auraeum n. sp. Botting 2007 demosponge | |
Hamptonia christi n. sp.
Hamptonia christi n. sp. Botting 2007 demosponge | |
Choia sp. Walcott 1920 demosponge | |
Hexactinellida | |
? Asthenospongiidae indet. Botting 2004 glass sponge |