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 150362: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 06.09.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Neocycloceras sp. Flower and Caster 1935 | |
Temperoceras sp. Barskov 1960 | |
Gastropoda | |
Murchisonia (Murchisonia) sp. d'Archiac and de Verneuil 1841 snail | |
Pleurotomariinae indet. Swainson 1840 snail | |
Crenistriella sp. Knight 1945 snail | |
Rotellomphalus tardus Perner 1903 snail | |
Bivalvia | |