Filon Douze Tafilalt, Erbenoceras Limestone: Zlichovian, Morocco
collected by Kröger 2007

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Agoniatitida - Mimosphinctidae
Erbenoceras advolvens (Erben 1960)
Cephalopoda - Lituitida - Lamellorthoceratidae
Arthrophyllum vermiculare (Termier and Termier 1950)
4 specimens
Cephalopoda - Orthocerida
Bogoslovskya mohamadcharaoui
4 specimens
Cephalopoda - Actinocerida - Ormoceratidae
Metarmenoceras fatimacharaoui
3 specimens
Cephalopoda - Pseudorthocerida - Pseudorthoceratidae
Subormoceras erfoudense Kröger 2008
2 specimens
Cephalopoda - Bactritida - Bactritidae
Devonobactrites emsiense Kröger 2008
3 specimens
Bivalvia - Cyrtodontida - Antipleuridae
Panenka sp. Barrande 1881
see common names

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:Erbenoceras Limestone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified calcareous wackestone
Secondary lithology:nodular packstone
Lithology description: 4.5 m thick, with an increasing number of fine argillaceous layers toward the top, the limestones are nodular, biodetrital wacke-packstones containing predominantly pelmatozoan debris and dacryoconarids
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:91749
Authorizer:B. Kröger Enterer:B. Kröger
Modifier:B. Kröger Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-10-19 12:39:22 Last modified:2009-10-28 16:42:21
Access level:the public Released:2009-10-19 12:39:22
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]