Gare Mechra Ben Abbou, Douar Nahilat Fm (Devonian of Morocco)

Where: Morocco (32.7° N, 7.8° W: paleocoordinates 42.0° S, 9.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Douar Nahilat Formation, Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; black limestone and quartzite

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 221428: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 05.08.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporellida - Trupetostromatidae
Clathrodictyon (Synthetostroma) actinostromoides Lecompte 1951 stromatoporoid sponge
 Stromatoporellida - Stromatoporellidae
Stromatoporella ex gr. solitaria Nicholson 1892 stromatoporoid sponge
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Cyrtospiriferidae
 Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
"Centrorhynchus letiensis" = Sartenaerus
"Centrorhynchus letiensis" = Sartenaerus
Strophomenata
 Productida - Araksalosiidae
 Productida - Productidae
 Productida - Productellidae
Productella subaculeata Murchison 1840