Where: Morocco (31.9° N, 8.9° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 73.5° S, 34.7° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Issafene Formation, Botomian (516.0 - 512.9 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: anthropogenic
Collection methods: There have been several collections at this site, and each has resulted in a different faunal assemblage. This paper records the fauna from the excavations by Ennouchi in the 1960s.
Primary reference: F. Debrenne. 1990. Archaeocyatha du Maroc : Essai de synthèse. Géologie Méditerranéenne 17(3-4):213-227 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 232868: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 03.01.2024
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Archaeocyatha | |
Bicoscinus sdzuyi archaeocyath sponge | |
Coscinocyathus tener archaeocyath sponge | |
"Jebileticoscinus huvelini" = Jebileticoscinus, "Pachycoscinus hollardi" = Jebileticoscinus
"Jebileticoscinus huvelini" = Jebileticoscinus archaeocyath sponge
"Pachycoscinus hollardi" = Jebileticoscinus archaeocyath sponge | |
"Mennericyathus chouberti" = Agyrekocyathus, "Mennericyathus faure" = Agyrekocyathus, "Mennericyathus muretae" = Agyrekocyathus
"Mennericyathus chouberti" = Agyrekocyathus archaeocyath sponge
"Mennericyathus faure" = Agyrekocyathus archaeocyath sponge
"Mennericyathus muretae" = Agyrekocyathus archaeocyath sponge | |
Ichnusocyathus simplex archaeocyath sponge
Erismacoscinus confossus archaeocyath sponge | |
Retetumulus dutuiti archaeocyath sponge
Retetumulus spinosus archaeocyath sponge
Orbicoscinus schaerti archaeocyath sponge | |
? Dokidocyathus levillaini archaeocyath sponge | |
"Rewardocyathus dudresnayi" = Torosocyathus
"Rewardocyathus dudresnayi" = Torosocyathus archaeocyath sponge | |
Carpicyathus laxus archaeocyath sponge | |
Rectannulus willefertae archaeocyath sponge
Rectannulus aporosus archaeocyath sponge | |
Inacyathella pulchra archaeocyath sponge | |
Porocyathellus bouddi archaeocyath sponge
Porocyathellus catenularius archaeocyath sponge | |
Loculicyathus membranivestites archaeocyath sponge
Loculicyathus congruens archaeocyath sponge | |
Dictyocyathus impletus archaeocyath sponge
Dictyocyathus tenuis archaeocyath sponge |