Locality 4, 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 (388.1 - 383.7 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 144589: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 13.05.2013

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Taxonomic list

Stenolaemata
 Cystoporata - Fistuliporidae
 Cryptostomata -
 Cryptostomata - Stictoporellidae
Acanthostictoporella angusta Ernst and Königshof 2010
 Cryptostomata - Rhinidictyonidae
 Cryptostomata - Septatoporidae
 Cryptostomata - Acanthocladiidae
Ptylopora sp. McCoy 1844
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
 Trepostomata - Heterotrypidae
 Rhabdomesida - Rhabdomesidae
 Rhabdomesida - Rhomboporidae
Lenapora pulchra Ernst and Königshof 2010
 Trepostomida - Atactotoechidae
 Fenestrata - Chainodictyonidae
 Fenestrata -
 Cystoporida - Sulcoreteporidae