Also known as Reef 1568
Where: Morocco (30.9° N, 4.5° W: paleocoordinates 50.1° S, 22.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Emsian to Emsian (407.6 - 382.7 Ma)
• Mader Basin
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; mudstone
•Orientation: NW-SE
•Length: 100m (1) 200m (2) 50m (3)
•Width: 50m (1) 100m (2) 25m (3)
•Elevation: 15m (1) 25m (2) 10 (3)
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•The smaller mounds of Jebel el Oftal are constructed on slightly tilted Eifelian wackestones to packstones. The mounds are totally exhumed and therefore yield only limeted informarion about their sedimentary cover.
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Preservation: original calcite
Collection methods: peel or thin section,
Primary reference: J. Wendt. 1993. Steep-sided carbonate mud mounds in the Middle Devonian of the eastern Anti-Atlas, Morocco. Geological Magazin 130(1):69-83 [W. Kiessling/F. Reichel/F. Reichel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 74493: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Falko Reichel on 07.08.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Deuteropoda | |
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Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod | |
| Trilobita | |
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Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite | |
| Tentaculita | |
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Styliolina ? sp. Karpinsky 1884 | |
| Gastropoda | |
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
| Bivalvia | |
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Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
| Brachiopoda | |
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Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805 | |
| Crinoidea | |
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Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily | |
| Anthozoa | |
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Thamnoporella ? sp. Sokolov 1955 tabulate coral | |
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Auloporidae indet. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 tabulate coral | |
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Rugosa indet. horn coral | |
| unclassified | |
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Problematica indet. Andrews 1970 | |