Oum El Jerane, Faunule 1: Early/Lower Emsian, Morocco

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
Chebbioceras erfoudense
3 specimens
Polychaeta - Phyllodocida - Lepidocoleidae
Lepidocoleus rugatus
2 specimens
Anthozoa - Favositida - Micheliniidae
Petridictyum sp. Schindewolf 1959
De Baets et al. 2010 1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Morocco
Coordinates: 31.0° North, 4.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:57.4° South, 28.1° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Devonian Epoch:Early/Lower Devonian
Stage:Emsian 10 m.y. bin:Devonian 2
Key time interval:Early/Lower Emsian Zone: dehiscens
Age range of interval:407.60000 - 398.30000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Seheb El Rhassel
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: mudstone
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:150506
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:M. Krause
Modifier:M. Krause Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2013-09-09 22:12:37 Last modified:2013-09-27 06:27:03
Access level:authorizer only Released:2013-12-09 22:12:37
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]

Secondary references:

48155 K. De Baets, C. Klug, and Y. Plusquellec. 2010. Zlíchovian faunas with early ammonoids from Morocco and their use for the correlation of the eastern Anti-Atlas and the western Dra Valley. Bulletin of Geosciences 85(2):317-352 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Krause]