Silty Shales Overlying Graptolitic Shales in the Pays de Skoura: Ludlow - Pridoli, Morocco

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
Orthoceratidae indet. M'Coy 1844
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Mytilus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pterineidae
Pterinea carens
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Lunulacardiidae
Lunulacardium eximium
genus given as "Lunulicardium"
Bivalvia - Cyrtodontida - Antipleuridae
Panenka erosa
Panenka bohemica
Bivalvia - Cyrtodontida - Cardiolidae
Cardiola interrupta
Crinoidea
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821
see common names

Geography
Country:Morocco
Coordinates: 32.0° North, 8.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:68.8° South, 18.2° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Silurian
10 m.y. bin:Silurian 2
*Epoch:Late/Upper Ludlow - Pridoli
Key time interval:Ludlow - Pridoli
Age range of interval:427.40000 - 419.20000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: Authors' age call based on shelly fossils.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: silty "shale"
Lithology description: "silty shales"
Environment:marine indet.
Geology comments: Some 300km N of Pridoli shoreline, according to paleogeographic map of ref. 7455.
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:27396
Authorizer:M. Foote Enterer:M. Foote
Modifier:M. Foote Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2002-12-05 12:37:34 Last modified:2006-09-13 14:01:03
Access level:the public Released:2002-12-05 12:37:34
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
7455. W. B. N. Berry and A. J. Boucot. 1973. Correlation of the African Silurian rocks. Geological Society of America Special Paper 147:1-83 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]