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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Ptychopteria sp. Hall 1883 oyster | |
Strophomenata | |
Acanthatia sp. Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960 |