Jebel Ouaoufilal, Faunule 1: Early/Lower Emsian, Morocco
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Chondrichthyes
- Machaeracanthidae
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Machaeracanthus cf. peracutus
Newberry 1857
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7 specimens | ||||||
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Orthothecida
- Orthothecidae
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Orthotheca sp.
Novak 1886
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13 specimens | ||||||
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Rhynchonellata
- Athyridida
- Athyrididae
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cf. Protathyris sp.
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Bivalvia
- Nuculanida
- Malletiidae
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Palaeoneilo emarginata
(Conrad 1841)
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6 specimens | ||||||
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Bivalvia
- Nuculanida
- Polidevciidae
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Phestia rostellata
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5 specimens | ||||||
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Bivalvia
- Nuculanida
- Cucullellidae
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Nuculites (Gonionnuculites) celticus
Babin et al. 2001
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Cucullella (Cucullella) triquetra
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4 specimens | ||||||
| synonym of Nuculites | |||||||
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Cephalopoda
- Orthocerida
- Orthoceratidae
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Chebbioceras erfoudense
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Morocco |
| Coordinates: | 31.0° North, 4.1° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 57.5° South, 28.2° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Devonian | Epoch: | Early/Lower Devonian |
| Stage: | Emsian | 10 m.y. bin: | Devonian 2 |
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Emsian | Conodont zone: | dehiscens |
| Age range of interval: | 407.60000 - 398.30000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Seheb El Rhassel |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | claystone |
| Secondary lithology: | marl |
| Environment: | offshore shelf |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | mesofossils,microfossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 150365 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | M. Krause |
| Modifier: | M. Krause | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2013-09-06 19:30:50 | Last modified: | 2013-09-27 06:31:46 |
| Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2013-12-06 19:30:50 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 48089. | C. Klug, B. Kröger, D. Korn, M. Rücklin, M. Schemm-Gregory, K. De Baets, and R. H. Mapes. 2008. Ecological Change during the early Emsian (Devonian) in the Tafilalt (Morocco),the Origin of the Ammonoidea,and the First African Pyrgocystid Edrioasteroids,Machaerids and Phyllocarids. Palaeontographica Abteilung A (Band 283)83-176 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause] |