Filon Douze Tafilalt bed OJ-II (Devonian of Morocco)

Also known as = Jovellania limestone succession. - not to confuse with "Jovellania limestone" of Bultynck and Walliser (2000)

Where: Morocco (30.9° N, 4.1° W: paleocoordinates 64.4° S, 30.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pedavis pesavis conodont zone, Lochkovian (419.2 - 410.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified, black, carbonaceous floatstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: recrystallized, original aragonite, replaced with calcite

Collected by Kröger in 2007; reposited in the MfN

Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: B. Kröger. 2008. Nautiloids before and during the ammonoid origin in a Siluro–Devonian section of the Tafilalt (Morocco). Special Papers in Palaeontology 79:1-110 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 91610: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 06.10.2009

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Tentaculita
 Homoctenida - Paranowakiidae
Cephalopoda
 Dissidocerida - Geisonoceratidae
 Oncocerida - Jovellaniidae
Jovellania cheirae Kröger 2008