right bank of Oued Tiflet, sample 41-42 (Devonian of Morocco)

Where: Morocco (33.9° N, 6.3° W: paleocoordinates 41.4° S, 11.9° E)

When: Rahal Shale Formation, Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• PJW: Given as formation A; this is now the Rahal Shale.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone and shale

• dark/black shale with intercalations of dark/black limestone

Size class: microfossils

Primary reference: E. M. Benfrika, P. Bultynck, and A. El Hassani. 2007. Upper Silurian to Middle Devonian conodont faunas from the Rabat–Tiflet area (northwestern Moroccan Meseta). Geological Quarterly 51(4):393-406 [E. Jarochowska/E. Jarochowska/S. Haegele]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 186437: authorized by Emilia Jarochowska, entered by Sarah Haegele on 22.06.2017

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Taxonomic list

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Conodonta
 Ozarkodinida - Polygnathidae
Polygnathus hemiansatus, Polygnathus eiflius, Polygnathus linguiformis, Polygnathus pseudofoliatus
Polygnathus linguiformis Hinde 1879 conodont
Subspecies "Polygnathus linguiformis linguiformis"
Polygnathus pseudofoliatus Wittekindt 1966 conodont
 Ozarkodinida - Spathognathodontidae
Tortodus "sp.", Tortodus bultyncki
Tortodus "sp." Weddige 1977 conodont
Tortodus bultyncki Aboussalam 2003 conodont
 Prioniodontida - Icriodontidae
Icriodus obliquimarginatus
 Belodellida - Belodellidae
Belodella devonica