Tetouan area, Rif, algal buildups (Carboniferous of Morocco)

Also known as Reef 231

Where: Morocco (35.3° N, 5.2° W: paleocoordinates 15.7° S, 0.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Serpukhovian (330.9 - 323.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• very small Pseudodonezella buildups

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: E. Flügel and H. G. Herbig. 1988. Mikrofazies karbonischer Kalkgerölle aus dem Paläozoikum des Rif (Marokko): ein Beitrag zur Paläogeographie der westmediterranen Paläotethys im Karbon [Microfacies of Carboniferous limestone clasts from the Rif Paleozoic (Morocco): a contribution to the paleogeography of the western Mediterranean Carboniferous Paleotethys]. Facies 19:271-300 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 76727: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 30.11.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
unclassified
  -
Anthozoa
 Heterocorallia - Heterophylliidae
Rhodophyceae
 Calcifoliida - Calcifoliaceae
"Pseudodonezella tenuissima" = Frustulata
"Pseudodonezella tenuissima" = Frustulata
 Calcifoliida - Fasciellidae
Foraminifera
 Archaediscacea - Archaediscidae
 Fusulinina - Tuberitinidae
 Fusulinina - Archaesphaeridae
 Fusulinina - Bisphaeridae