Also known as Reef 3581
Where: Morocco (35.2° N, 3.6° W: paleocoordinates 35.1° N, 3.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone and lithified marl
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J.-P. Saint Martin. 1990. Les formations recifales coralliennes du Miocene superieur d'Algerie et du Maroc [Upper Miocene coral reef formations from Algeria and Morocco]. Memoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris, C 56:1-373 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/S. Ávila]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 70888: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 11.04.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Florideophyceae | |
Corallinaceae indet. Lamouroux 1816 | |
Polychaeta | |
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835 | |
Gastropoda | |
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell | |
Vermetus sp. Daudin 1800 worm shell | |
Diodora sp. Gray 1821 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Chama gryphoides Linnaeus 1758 jewel box | |
Cardium sp. Linnaeus 1758 cockle | |
Lithophaga lithophaga Linnaeus 1758 mussel | |
Pectinidae indet. Wilkes 1810 scallop
"Chlamys pusio" = Talochlamys pusio Linnaeus 1758 scallop
Spondylidae indet. Gray 1826 scallop | |
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 | |
Anthozoa | |
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral | |
Siderastrea sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral |