Tindouf Basin of Spanish (Western) Sahara: Middle Devonian, Western Sahara
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Trilobita
- Phacopida
- Phacopidae
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| Phacops rana africanus | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Western Sahara |
| Coordinates: | 25.7° North, 11.8° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 40.4° South, 18.3° West (Wright 2013) |
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Devonian | Epoch: | Middle Devonian |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Devonian 3 | ||
| Key time interval: | Middle Devonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 393.47 - 382.31 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Spanish Sahara | ||
| Local section: | Tifariti aera/Aguelt Ouidiate El Khyam | Local bed: | Wernoceras Limestone |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified "limestone" | ||
| Includes fossils? | Y | ||
| Lithology description: Wernoceras Limestone varies from a blue-grey limestone to a calcareous marl | |||
| Environment: | offshore shelf | Tectonic setting: | cratonic basin |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | all microfossils,ichnofossils |
| Collection methods: | survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | BMNH |
Metadata
| Database number: | 38107 | ||
| Authorizer: | F. Fursich | Enterer: | F. Fursich |
| Modifier: | F. Fursich | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2004-04-12 10:08:39 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-04-12 10:08:39 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 10201. | 1% | C.h. J. Burton and N. Eldredge. 1974. Two new subspecies of Phacops rana (Trilobita) from the middle Devonian of north-west Africa. Palaeontology 17(2):349-363 [F. Fursich/F. Fursich/F. Fursich] |