Filon Douze Tafilalt bed OSPI-II: Pridoli, Morocco
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Cephalopoda
- Pseudorthocerida
- Pseudorthoceratidae
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Subormoceras sp.
Kröger 2008
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Cephalopoda
- Oncocerida
- Oncoceratidae
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Orthorizoceras desertum
Kröger 2008
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Cephalopoda
- Oncocerida
- Karoceratidae
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Ankyloceras sp.
Zhuravleva 1974
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Cephalopoda
- Orthocerida
- Sphaerorthoceratidae
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Akrosphaerorthoceras sp.
Ristedt 1968
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Hemicosmorthoceras semimbricatum
Gnoli 1982
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2 specimens | ||||||
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Cephalopoda
- Orthocerida
- Arionoceratidae
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Parakionoceras originale
(Barrande 1868)
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4 specimens | ||||||
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Cephalopoda
- Orthocerida
- Orthoceratidae
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Orthocycloceras fluminense
(Meneghini 1857)
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4 specimens | ||||||
| original and current combination Orthoceras fluminense | |||||||
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Kopaninoceras thyrsus
(Barrande 1870)
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2 specimens | ||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | Morocco |
| Coordinates: | 30.9° North, 4.1° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 69.1° South, 32.9° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Silurian | Epoch: | Pridoli |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Silurian 2 | ||
| Key time interval: | Pridoli | Conodont zone: | Spathagnathodus steinhornensis - Ligonodina detorta - Icriodus postwoschmidti/woschmidti |
| Age range of interval: | 423.00000 - 419.20000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Scyphocrinites Limestone | ||||
| Local section: | Filon Douze | Local bed: | OSP I-II | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Scyphocrinites limestone succession. (PJW: Scyphocrinites Limestone is used informally as a formation.) | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified argillaceous,carbonaceous lime mudstone | ||
| Environment: | offshore shelf | Tectonic setting: | passive margin |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,recrystallized,original aragonite,replaced with calcite |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Abundance in sediment: | abundant |
| Articulated whole bodies: | none |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 91457 | ||
| Authorizer: | B. Kröger | Enterer: | B. Kröger |
| Modifier: | P. Wagner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2009-09-27 15:22:44 | Last modified: | 2019-08-18 12:41:43 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2009-09-27 15:22:44 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 29331. | B. Kröger. 2008. Nautiloids before and during the ammonoid origin in a Siluro–Devonian section of the Tafilalt (Morocco). Special Papers in Palaeontology 79:1-110 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger] |