Tabainout mud mound complex, capping and flanking beds (Carboniferous to of Morocco)

Where: Morocco (32.9° N, 5.8° W: paleocoordinates 19.3° S, 0.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Asbian to Asbian (340.0 - 330.9 Ma)

• Late Asbian-Late Brigantian, Cf6γ-Cf6δ foraminiferal zones

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified limestone

• bedded capping and flanking beds of the mud mound

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: I. D. Somerville, S. Rodriguez, I. Said and P. Cozar. 2012. Mississippian coral assemblages from Tabainout mud-mound complex, Khenifra area, central Morocco. Geologica Belgica 15(4):308-316 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 134932: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 18.10.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Anthozoa
 Favositida - Micheliniidae
Michelinia sp. de Koninck 1841 tabulate coral
 Auloporida - Syringoporidae
Syringopora sp. Goldfuss 1826 tabulate coral
 Stauriida - Cyathopsidae
 Stauriida - Axophyllidae
Axophyllum aff. pseudokirsopianum Semenoff-Tian-Chansky 1974 horn coral
 Stauriida - Aulophyllidae
Haplolasma sp. Semenoff-Tian-Chansky 1974 horn coral
 Stauriida - Palaeosmiliidae
Palaeosmilia murchisoni Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 horn coral
 Stauriida - Kiziliidae
Kizilia sp. Degtyarev 1965 horn coral
 Stauriida - Laccophyllidae
"Amplexocarinia" sp. Soshkina 1928 horn coral
 Stauriida - Antiphyllidae
Rotiphyllum sp. Hudson 1942 horn coral
 Stauriida - Lithostrotionidae
Lithostrotion araneum McCoy 1844 horn coral
Lithostrotion vorticale Parkinson 1808 horn coral
Siphonodendron pauciradiale McCoy 1844 horn coral
Siphonodendron martini Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 horn coral
Siphonodendron irregulare Phillips 1836 horn coral
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales -
Foraminifera
  -
 Endothyroidea - Endothyridae
Endothyranopsis sp.
E. compressa?/plana?
 Palaeotextularoidea - Biseriamminidae
Biseriella parva Chernysheva 1948
 Archaediscacea - Archaediscidae