2280-III-A-3/1, Ashkidah Fm., Ash Shati area, N. flank of Murzuk Basin (Devonian to of Libya)
Where: Libya (27.7° N, 14.7° E: paleocoordinates 37.4° S, 20.1° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Ashkidah Formation, Famennian to Famennian (372.2 - 346.7 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; red sandstone and claystone
• Mergl and Massa consider the environment similar to that of the Tarut Formation (shallow, lagoonal, BA 1).
• Formation as a whole: "...mostly consists of fine-grained sandstone, siltstone and claystone alternating in various proportions. In the central and eastern parts of Wadi ash Shati, the ore-bearing member "B" developed amidst the Fm., dividing it into a lower, a middle, and an upper part...Fossil fauna is very scarce in the bulk of the Fm.." This collection: "red-brown sandstone"
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 36836: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 17.02.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Show authors, comments, and common names
| Lingulata | |