Tiout, bioherm 4: Atdabanian, Morocco

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chabakoviacea
Renalcis sp. Vologdin 1932
Archaeocyatha - Ajacicyathida - Ajacicyathidae
Rotundocyathus sp. Vologdin 1960
Debrenne and Debrenne 1995
Archaeocyatha - Ajacicyathida - Ethmocyathidae
Afiacyathus compositus
Debrenne and Debrenne 1995
Archaeocyatha - Ajacicyathida - Asterocyathidae
Erismacoscinus primus
Debrenne and Debrenne 1995
Archaeocyatha - Archaeocyathida - Copleicyathidae
Agastrocyathus gregarius
Debrenne and Debrenne 1995
Archaeocyatha - Archaeocyathida - Loculicyathidae
Neoloculicyathus magnus
Debrenne and Debrenne 1995
see common names

Geography
Country:Morocco
Coordinates: 30.4° North, 8.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:63.5° South, 113.2° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Cambrian Epoch: Series 2
Stage: Stage 3 10 m.y. bin: Cambrian 2
Key time interval: Atdabanian
Age range of interval: 521 - 515.6 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Amouslek
Local section:Tiout Local bed:4
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Bed 2 of Debrenne 1978. Alvaro et al. 2006 transfer the "archaeocyathid-bioherm facies" of the Tiout Member of the Igoudine Formation into the Amouslek Formation.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Lithology description: archaeocyath-microbial bioherm
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:peel or thin section,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Reef 2169
Database number:80881
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:U. Merkel Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-05-19 07:07:10 Last modified:2008-05-20 04:15:07
Access level:authorizer only Released:2010-01-08 10:39:56
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
27178. G. Geyer, E. Landing, and W. Heldmaier. 1995. Faunas and depositional environments of the Cambrian of the Moroccan Atlas regions. Beringeria, Special Issue 2:47-119 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]

Secondary references:

27221 J. J. Alvaro, S. Clausen, A. El Albani and E. H. Chellai. 2006. Facies distribution of the Lower Cambrian cryptic microbial and epibenthic archaeocyathan-microbial communities, western Anti-Atlas, Morocco. Sedimentology 53(1):35-53 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]
27179 F. Debrenne and M. Debrenne. 1995. Archaeocyaths of the Lower Cambrian of Morocco. Beringeria, Special Issue 2:121-145 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]