Bir Allouna Reef, Fes (Miocene of Morocco)

Also known as Reef 674

Where: Morocco (33.9° N, 4.7° W: paleocoordinates 33.8° N, 4.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)

• Late Tortonian or Early Messinian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

• small coral reefs in a marly-sandy environment

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 70927: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 12.04.2007

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Taxonomic list

Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Triforidae
Cerithiella sp. Verrill 1882 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Rissoidae
Rissoina sp. d'Orbigny 1840 snail
Alvania sp. Risso 1826 snail
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Chlamys sp., "Chlamys pusio" = Talochlamys pusio
Chlamys sp. Röding 1798 scallop
"Chlamys pusio" = Talochlamys pusio Linnaeus 1758 scallop
Thecostraca
 Balanomorpha - Pyrgomatidae
Creusia oraniensis coral barnacle
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Tarbellastraea sp. Alloiteau 1950 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites aff. lobatosepta Chevalier 1961 stony coral