Where: Morocco (32.6° N, 7.8° W: paleocoordinates 42.6° S, 10.3° 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: perireef or subreef; limestone and wackestone
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 221400: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 02.08.2021
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Renalcis | |
Renalcis sp. Vologdin 1932 | |
Anthozoa | |
Rugosa indet. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 horn coral | |
Sociophyllum sp. Birenheide 1962 horn coral | |
"Mesophyllum (Cystiphylloides) sp." = Cystiphylloides
"Mesophyllum (Cystiphylloides) sp." = Cystiphylloides Chapman 1893 horn coral | |
Syringopora sp. Goldfuss 1826 tabulate coral | |
Auloporidae indet. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 tabulate coral | |
Platyaxum (Roseoporella) taenioforme tabulate coral | |
Alveolites sp. Lamarck 1801 tabulate coral
Scoliopora denticulata Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 tabulate coral | |
Stromatoporoidea | |
Clavidictyon sp. Sugiyama 1939 stromatoporoid sponge | |
Pseudotrupetostroma sp. Khalfina and Yavorsky 1971 stromatoporoid sponge | |
Amphipora sp. Schulz 1883 stromatoporoid sponge
Amphipora ramosa Phillips 1841 stromatoporoid sponge | |
Clathrocoilona ex gr. damnoniensis, Clathrocoilona solidula, Clathrocoilona obliterata, Stromatoporella sp., Stromatoporella mudlakensis
Clathrocoilona ex gr. damnoniensis stromatoporoid sponge
Clathrocoilona obliterata Lecompte 1951 stromatoporoid sponge
Stromatoporella sp. Nicholson 1886 stromatoporoid sponge
Stromatoporella mudlakensis stromatoporoid sponge | |
Trupetostroma sp. Parks 1936 stromatoporoid sponge | |
? Habrostroma sp. Fagerstrom 1982 stromatoporoid sponge | |
Parallelopora goldfussi Bargatzky 1881 stromatoporoid sponge | |
Stachyodes sp., Stachyodes caespitosa, Stachyodes ex gr. paralleloporoides, Stachyodes ex gr. dendroidea
Stachyodes sp. Bargatzky 1881 stromatoporoid sponge
Stachyodes caespitosa stromatoporoid sponge
Stachyodes ex gr. paralleloporoides stromatoporoid sponge
Stachyodes ex gr. dendroidea Etheridge 1918 stromatoporoid sponge | |
Actinostroma ex gr. septatum stromatoporoid sponge
Actinostroma verrucosum stromatoporoid sponge
Actinostroma stellulatum Nicholson 1885 stromatoporoid sponge | |
Ulvophyceae | |
Vermiporella sp. Stolley 1893 | |
Chlorophyceae | |
Dasycladaceae indet. Kutzing 1843 | |
Rhaphidopora | |
Rhaphidopora sp. Nicholson and Foord 1886 |