Filon Douze Tafilalt, KMO-IV: Zlichovian, Morocco
collected by Kröger 2007
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Cephalopoda
- Nautilida
- Centroceratidae
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Centroceras sp.
Hyatt 1884
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Cephalopoda
- Lituitida
- Lamellorthoceratidae
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Arthrophyllum vermiculare
(Termier and Termier 1950)
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Cephalopoda
- Dissidocerida
- Geisonoceratidae
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Temperoceras migrans
(Barrande 1868)
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Cephalopoda
- Orthocerida
- Orthoceratidae
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Infundibuloceras brevimira
Klug et al. 2008
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Infundibuloceras longicameratum
Kröger 2008
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Cephalopoda
- Pseudorthocerida
- Pseudorthoceratidae
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Neocycloceras termieri
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Subdoloceras tafilaltense
Kröger 2008
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Morocco |
| Coordinates: | 30.9° North, 4.1° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 53.7° South, 27.2° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Devonian | Epoch: | Early/Lower Devonian |
| Stage: | Emsian | 10 m.y. bin: | Devonian 2 |
| Key time interval: | Zlichovian | Conodont zone: | |
| Age range of interval: | 407.60000 - 393.30000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Local section: | Filon Douze | Local bed: | KMO-IV |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | gray poorly lithified claystone | ||
| Secondary lithology: | nodular lithified wackestone | ||
| Lithology description: 2.5m thick succession of claystones with intercalated nodular bioclastic limestone beds that contain a rich fauna of rugose corals and trilobites | |||
| 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: | common |
| Articulated whole bodies: | none |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils | ||
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | MfN | ||
| Collectors: | Kröger | Collection dates: | 2007 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 91748 | ||
| Authorizer: | B. Kröger | Enterer: | B. Kröger |
| Modifier: | B. Kröger | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2009-10-19 12:30:40 | Last modified: | 2009-10-19 14:35:05 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2009-10-19 12:30:40 |
| 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] |