Where: Morocco (31.2° N, 3.8° W: paleocoordinates 57.3° S, 28.7° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: gronbergi zone, Seheb El Rhassel Group, Early/Lower Emsian (409.1 - 402.5 Ma)
Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; claystone and marl
Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils
Primary reference: C. Klug, B. Kröger, D. Korn, M. Rücklin, M. Schemm-Gregory, K. De Baets, and R. H. Mapes. 2008. Ecological Change during the early Emsian (Devonian) in the Tafilalt (Morocco),the Origin of the Ammonoidea,and the First African Pyrgocystid Edrioasteroids,Machaerids and Phyllocarids. Palaeontographica Abteilung A (Band 283)83-176 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 150360: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 06.09.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Machaeracanthus cf. peracutus Newberry 1857 spiny fish | |
Cephalopoda | |
Mimosphinctinae indet. Erben 1953 ammonite | |
Arthrophyllum vermiculare Termier and Termier 1950 | |
Orthocycloceras "sp. B" Barskov 1972
Infundibuloceras brevimira Klug et al. 2008 | |
Parakionoceras sp. Foerste 1928 | |
Neocycloceras sp. Flower and Caster 1935 | |
Gastropoda | |
"Platyceras (Platyostoma) sp." = Platyostoma
"Platyceras (Platyostoma) sp." = Platyostoma Conrad 1842 snail | |
Rotellomphalus tardus Perner 1903 snail | |
Oriostoma sp. Munier-Chalmas 1876 snail | |
Sinuitina (Sinuitina) sp. Knight 1945 snail | |
Crenistriella sp. Knight 1945 snail | |
Pleurotomariinae indet. Swainson 1840 snail | |
Palaeozygopleura sp. Horný 1955 snail | |
Lukesispira pulchra Frýda and Manda 1997 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Nuculoidea grandaeva clam | |
Grammysioidea sp. Miller 1877 clam | |
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Spanila discipulus clam | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Trilobita | |
"Cornuproetus maghrebus" = Sculptoproetus maghrebus
"Cornuproetus maghrebus" = Sculptoproetus maghrebus Alberti 1967 trilobite | |
Leonaspis (Leonaspis) issoumourensis trilobite |