Locality 2, Sabkhat Lafayrina reef complex area (Devonian of Morocco)

Where: Morocco (26.6° N, 11.5° W: paleocoordinates 46.5° S, 5.8° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Givetian (380.2 - 382.7 Ma)

• The presence of Heliolithes porosus indicates a Late Givetian age

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; reef rocks

• The Sabkhat Lafayrina reef complex belongs to the fourth reef cycle and is mainly composed of corals and stromatoporoids

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: A. Ernst and P. Königshof. 2010. Bryozoan fauna and microfacies from a Middle Devonian reef complex (Western Sahara, Morocco). Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 568:1-91 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 144587: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 13.05.2013

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Taxonomic list

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Stenolaemata
 Rhabdomesida - Rhomboporidae
Lenapora pulchra, Rhombopora minutula
Lenapora pulchra Ernst and Königshof 2010
 Rhabdomesida - Rhabdomesidae
Acanthoclema triangularis, Vidronovella fastigiata
 Fenestrata - Chainodictyonidae
Rhombocladia striata
 Fenestrata -
Prolixicella lata
 Trepostomida - Atactotoechidae
Atactotoechus gaetulus, Eridotrypella minutiformis, Eridotrypella modesta
 Cystoporida - Sulcoreteporidae
Ceramella cf. scidacea, Sulcoretepora obliqua, Sulcoretepora moderata
 Trepostomata - Heterotrypidae
Leioclema crassiparietum, Leioclema decipiens
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
Filites gaetulus, Spinofenestella sp., Anastomopora clara, Anastomopora recta, Hemitrypa sp.
Spinofenestella sp. Termier and Termier 1971
 Cryptostomata - Septatoporidae
Dissotrypa sincera
 Cryptostomata -
Cryptostyloecia hexapuncta
 Cryptostomata - Stictoporellidae
Acanthostictoporella angusta
Acanthostictoporella angusta Ernst and Königshof 2010
 Cryptostomata - Rhinidictyonidae
Euspilopora spinigera
 Cystoporata - Fistuliporidae
Cyclotrypa cyclostoma, Fistuliphragma parva