Jerada Massif, P7: Asbian - Brigantian, Morocco

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Axophyllidae
Pareynia splendens Semenoff-Tian-Chansky 1974
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Lithostrotionidae
Lithostrotion vorticale (Parkinson 1808)
Tizraia berkhlii Said and Rodriguez 2007
see common names

Geography
Country:Morocco
Coordinates: 34.3° North, 2.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:19.7° South, 0.1° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Carboniferous Epoch:Mississippian
Stage:Visean 10 m.y. bin:Carboniferous 2
Key time interval:Asbian - Brigantian
Age range of interval:340.20000 - 330.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Koudiat Es-Senn
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Lithology description: large microbial-sponge buildup
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
Database number:99685
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2010-11-19 01:13:19 Last modified:2010-11-18 08:13:19
Access level:the public Released:2010-11-19 01:13:19
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

34275. M. Aretz. 2010. Rugose corals from the Upper Visean (Carboniferous) of the Jerada Massif (NE Morocco): taxonomy, biostratigraphy, facies and palaeobiogeography. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 84:323-344 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]