Filon Douce, bed EF: Early/Lower Emsian, Morocco

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
Chebbioceras erfoudense
10 specimens
Infundibuloceras brevimira Klug et al. 2008
5 specimens
see common names

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
Age range of interval:407.60000 - 398.30000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Seheb El Rhassel
Local section:Filon Douce Local bed:EF
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:150507
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:M. Krause
Modifier:M. Krause Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2013-09-09 22:22:45 Last modified:2013-09-27 06:32:16
Access level:authorizer only Released:2013-12-09 22:22:45
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]