Tizra fm TZ2, Adarouch area, Atlas, El Hajeb (Carboniferous of Morocco)

Also known as Reef 3742

Where: Morocco (33.5° N, 5.4° W: paleocoordinates 20.1° S, 3.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: TZ2 Member (Tizra Formation), Asbian (340.0 - 336.0 Ma)

• Tizra Formation, about 300 Meter

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified limestone

• massive bioclastic limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying, peel or thin section,

Primary reference: I. Said, M. Berkhli, and S. Rodriguez. 2007. Preliminary data on the coral distribution in the Upper Visean (Mississippian) succession from Adarouch area (NE Central Morocco). Hubann, B. & Piller, W. E. (Eds.)2007: Fossil Corals and Sponges: Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Fossil Cnidaria and Porifera, Graz 2003.- Österr. Akad. Wiss. Schriftenr. Erdwiss. Komm. 17:353-363 [W. Kiessling/F. Reichel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 79392: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Falko Reichel on 07.03.2008

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Taxonomic list

• Not include: crinoids and brachiopods
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Anthozoa
 Auloporida - Syringoporidae
Syringopora sp.
Syringopora sp. Goldfuss 1826 tabulate coral
 Stauriida - Lithostrotionidae
Lithostrotion araneum, Lithostrotion vorticale, Siphonodendron martini
Lithostrotion araneum McCoy 1844 horn coral
Lithostrotion vorticale Parkinson 1808 horn coral
Siphonodendron martini Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 horn coral
 Stauriida - Cyathopsidae
Siphonophyllia samsonensis
Siphonophyllia samsonensis Salee 1913 horn coral
 Stauriida - Palaeosmiliidae
Palaeosmilia murchisoni
Palaeosmilia murchisoni Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 horn coral