2180-II-C-2, Marar Fm., Ash Shati area, N. flank of Murzuk Basin: Tournaisian, Libya

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Lingulata - Lingulida - Pseudolingulidae
Wadiglossa wadigena
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
Cupularostrum cupulosum
see common names

Geography
Country:Libya
Coordinates: 27.6° North, 14.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.0° South, 17.1° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Carboniferous Epoch:Mississippian
Stage:Tournaisian 10 m.y. bin:Carboniferous 1
Key time interval:Tournaisian
Age range of interval:358.90000 - 346.70000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Marar
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: claystone
Secondary lithology: siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Formation as a whole: "thick sequence of claystones alternating with siltstones and standstones, in the upper part with limestone and dolomite layers...140-150 m [thick]". This collection: claystone
Environment:marine indet.
Geology comments: Mergl and Massa interpret as nearshore marine, BA2-3.
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:36847
Authorizer:M. Foote Enterer:M. Foote
Modifier:M. Foote Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2004-02-17 12:02:55 Last modified:2006-09-13 14:01:03
Access level:the public Released:2004-02-17 12:02:55
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
8780. V. Havlicek and P. Rohlich. 1987. Devonian and Carboniferous brachiopods from the northern flank of the Murzug Basin (Libya). Sbornik Geologickych Ved: Paleontologie 28:117-177 [A. Miller/J. Sessa/J. Sessa]

Secondary references:

9606 M. Mergl and D. Massa. 1992. Devonian and Lower Carboniferous brachiopods and bivalves from western Libya. Biostratigraphie du Paleozoique 12:1-115 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]