Where: Libya (27.4° N, 13.2° E: paleocoordinates 50.6° S, 36.8° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Idri Formation, Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)
• Age range of formation is Givetian to early Frasnian (ref. 8780). However, the bulk is Givetian. This collection is from the "lower fossiliferous level"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone and silty claystone
Primary reference: V. Havlicek and P. Rohlich. 1987. Devonian and Carboniferous brachiopods from the northern flank of the Murzug Basin (Libya). Sbornik Geologickych Ved: Paleontologie 28:117-177 [A. Miller/J. Sessa/J. Sessa]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 36184: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 16.01.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Tropidoleptus carinatus Conrad 1839 |