Tabainout Ridge, lower limestone (Carboniferous of Morocco)

Where: Meknes-Tafilalet, Morocco (33.0° N, 5.8° W: paleocoordinates 20.7° S, 1.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tabainout Formation, Asbian (340.0 - 336.0 Ma)

• lower limestone unit below the build-ups

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified grainstone and lithified packstone

• fine-grained grainstone and packstone rich in foraminifers and calcareous algae; poorly-sorted crinoidal packstone; rare bioclastic rudstone, productid-rich limestone and limestone breccia

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: M. Aretz and H. G. Herbig. 2010. Corals from the Upper Visean of the southern Azrou-Khenifra Basin (Carboniferous, Central Moroccan Meseta). Palaeoworld 19:294-305 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 99646: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 17.11.2010

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Lithostrotionidae
Lithostrotion vorticale, Siphonodendron irregulare
Lithostrotion vorticale Parkinson 1808 horn coral
Siphonodendron irregulare Phillips 1836 horn coral
 Stauriida - Palaeosmiliidae
Palaeosmilia murchisoni
Palaeosmilia murchisoni Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 horn coral
 Heterocorallia - Heterophylliidae
Heterophyllia ornata