Sidi bou Talaa, Reefal Sidi bou Talaa Mbr., SBT F2 Reef core limestone (Devonian to of Morocco)

Where: Morocco (33.0° N, 7.8° W: paleocoordinates 42.3° S, 10.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sidi bou Talaa Member (Mechra Ben Abbou Formation), Early/Lower Givetian to Early/Lower Givetian (388.1 - 383.7 Ma)

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone

• thick bedded stromatoporoid-coral boundstones

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: S. Eichholt, R. T. Becker, Z. S. Aboussalam, A. El Hassani, A. May, U. Jansen, A. Ernst and F. El Kamel. 2021. Devonian of the Mechra Ben Abbou region (Rehamna) – new data on the reef succession, microfacies, stratigraphy, and palaeogeography. Frontiers in Science and Engineering 10(2):109-152 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 221398: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 02.08.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Anthozoa
 Rugosa -
Rugosa indet. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 horn coral
 Stauriida - Stringophyllidae
Sociophyllum sp. Birenheide 1962 horn coral
 Tabulata -
Tabulata indet. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Coenitidae
Platyaxum sp. Davis 1887 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Alveolitidae
Alveolitidae indet. Duncan 1872 tabulate coral
Stromatoporoidea
 Amphiporida - Amphiporidae
Amphipora sp. Schulz 1883 stromatoporoid sponge
 Stromatoporellida - Stromatoporellidae
Clathrocoilona sp. Yavorsky 1931 stromatoporoid sponge
 Stromatoporellida - Trupetostromatidae
Trupetostroma sp. Parks 1936 stromatoporoid sponge
 Syringostromatida - Stachyoditidae
Stachyodes sp. Bargatzky 1881 stromatoporoid sponge
 Actinostromatida - Actinostromatidae
Actinostroma sp. Nicholson 1886 stromatoporoid sponge
Rhaphidopora
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Rhaphidopora sp. Nicholson and Foord 1886