Awaynat Wanin type sect.,Tahara Fmn., sample SM406 (Devonian of Libya)

Where: Libya (28.1° N, 13.0° E: paleocoordinates 38.6° S, 20.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Tahara Formation, Late/Upper Famennian (364.7 - 360.7 Ma)

• Assemblage interpreted as late Famennian.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone and siltstone

• poor preservation; interpreted as shallow marine, near coast, BA2 (same as PBDB coll. 35622).
• Formation as a whole: "alternation of sandstones, siltstones, and shales".

Collection methods: Focus of monograph is brachiopods and bivalves, but other elements are sometimes mentioned in passing.

Primary reference: M. Mergl and D. Massa. 1992. Devonian and Lower Carboniferous brachiopods and bivalves from western Libya. Biostratigraphie du Paleozoique 12:1-115 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 35623: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 31.12.2003

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Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Productida - Araksalosiidae
Acanthatia sp. Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
Ptychopteria sp. Hall 1883 oyster